A ruling in the antimonopoolio case of search in the USA against Google de Alphabet on Tuesday is a victory for mobile phone manufacturers, including Apple and Samsung, whom a judge said that Google can continue to pay to be the predetermined search engine on new devices.
Google has said that he will present an appeal in the case, which means that the failure will probably not immediately enter into force.
Here are some of the arguments that Apple and others presented in judicial documents before the ruling:
Apple
The iPhone manufacturer supported demanding that Google shares its search data with artificial intelligence competitors such as Openai, Anthropic, Perplexity, and said it plans to offer more options promoted by AI in the search.
Apple recently saw a decrease for the first time in the amount of Google search consultations from its safari browser compared to the previous year, the company said in May.
“True competition in the market is not far,” said Apple.
But cutting the payments to Apple, which have reached 20 billion dollars annually, would only enrich Google and cut Apple’s development budget, since there are no other good options to offer as predetermined, Apple argued.
Samsung
The South Korean manufacturer of smartphones also opposed the end of Google’s payments – and the attempt of prosecutors to extend the ban on the application of Google, Gemini.
Stop this financing would harm Samsung’s ability to compete with the most profitable Apple, to which the Department of Justice has accused separately of monopolizing smartphone markets in the US. UU., Said the company. Such movement could even push Samsung out of the mobile phone market in the US, as Microsoft, Amazon and LG Corp have done in the last decade, he said.
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The telephone manufacturer also argued that his most recent agreements with Google are not exclusive and do not hinder the competence of rivals in AI.
Motorola
The Chicago -based telephone manufacturer is the third largest in the US for a wide margin, and said that ending Google’s income distribution payments would harm him more than anyone. Motorola argued that this prohibition should only be applied to companies with 30% or more of the US market. That would include Apple and possibly Samsung, which reached 31% of the US market this year, according to the Canals research firm.
Mozilla
Firefox’s non -profit developer looked for an exception to any prohibition of payments for manufacturers of independent browsers, saying that, although searches through their browser only represent a small fraction of Google inquiries, Google payments include 85% of their annual income.
Unionized Google workers
Alphabet Workers Union-Cwa, which represents about 1,000 workers in Google and their subcontractors, requested provisions against reprisals to help employees point out possible antitrust violations.
With Reuters information.
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