Google Rebukes Eu Regulators For Ignoring Apple In Antitrust Case
Meredith Pickford, the lawyer representing Google, offered the company’s defense to the General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg. A panel of five judges heard the arguments at the General Court on the first day of a five-day hearing. “The Commission shut its eyes to the real competitive dynamic in this industry, that between Apple and Android,” Pickford told the court. “By defining markets too narrowly and downplaying the potent constraint imposed by the highly powerful Apple, the Commission has mistakenly found Google to be dominant in mobile operating systems and app stores, when it was in fact a vigorous market disrupter....