Persistence Pays as Google's Banned Rivals Win EU Crackdown
- Contents of antitrust complaints date as far back as 2013
- Complainants detail struggle retaining software businesses
Google Android Target of EU Antitrust Regulators
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A few years ago, a European entrepreneur named Paulo Trezentos got an earful from his customers. They told him Google was making it hard to install Aptoide, his version of Google’s Play store, on their devices. Thousands of miles away in San Francisco, Casey Oppenheim was getting similar complaints about his Disconnect app, which blocked ads.
Both men, their businesses potentially in peril, came to the same decision: They filed formal complaints to European antitrust regulators.