Google requires phone manufacturers that they pre-install apps on devices for Google Search and Google Chrome. If they do not, then users will not have access to other apps from the company, such as the Google Play Store, the main app store for the platform. According to the European Commission, which coupling bad for competition and for consumers.

According to the spokeswoman Google had asked for additional time to go through all the documents in the case. Google could be fined up to EUR 6.6 billion, or 10 percent of annual sales.

The Android operating system is the world at some 1.4 billion phones and tablets installed. Thus it is with considerable distance the largest mobile operating system in the world.

At Google also under investigation by the European Commission on online price comparison Google Shopping. It would get its own products prevail. Two weeks ago, reports surfaced that even the advertising platform, the main source of income of the group, would be in the crosshairs