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Google said Tuesday it would charge manufacturers for apps in a compromise move to avoid more EU mega-fines, after Brussels accused the US tech giant of illegally abusing the dominance of its Android operating system for mobile devices.
The European Commission in July hit Google with its biggest-ever fine, imposing a 4.34 billion euro (US$5 billion) penalty, giving the firm 90 days to change its practices.
Brussels accused Google of using the Android system鈥檚 dominance of smartphones and tablets to promote the use of its own Google search engine and shut out rivals.
Google has appealed the decision, arguing that the EU鈥檚 accusations were unfounded, but on Tuesday said it would comply with the decision in order to avoid further fines.
鈥淲e have confirmed to the European Commission how we will comply with its recent decision on Android,鈥 said Al Verney, a spokesperson for Google in Brussels.
In a blogpost detailing the move, Google said it would change existing practice and allow smartphone and tablet makers 鈥 such as Samsung or Huawei 颅鈥 to create non-Android compliant phones in parallel to compliant ones.
In addition, device manufacturers will now pay an unspecified license fee to have access to Google applications 鈥 such as Gmail or Youtube 颅鈥 that will come separately to the dominant Google Search app or the Chrome browser.
Those apps will be unbundled from Google鈥檚 suite of other applications, satisfying a key EU demand. Google failed to specify the amount of the license fee or whether manufacturers would pass it along, saying only the fee was required in order to recoup losses from the decision.
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