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Google’s lawyers said the European Commission blundered by demanding changes to allegedly anti-competitive contracts with suppliers of phones running its Android operating system -- the engine room for the vast majority of mobile devices in the region.\n“The commission shut its eyes to the real competitive dynamic in this industry -- that between Apple Inc. and Android,” Meredith Pickford, a lawyer for Google, told a five-judge panel on Monday. Regulators “mistakenly found Google to be dominant” for mobile phone software licensed to phone manufacturers. Apple doesn’t allow other phones use its iOS system.\nThe Android case is one of a trio of decisions that have been the centerpiece of EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager’s bid to rein in the growing dominance of Silicon Valley. 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Mountain View, California-based Google, which had revenues of $182.5 billion last year, has built a massive business of banner and videos ads, thanks largely to its central role on Android devices.\nPickford said Google needed the ability to tie its apps to mobile phone software to give it “the right incentives” to invest billions of euros in the Android ecosystem which created “a reliable non-fragmented platform, that provided a real competitive alternative” to Apple. That benefited app developers and consumers, he said.\nEU lawyer Nicholas Khan countered that the restrictive contracts allowed Google to build a near-monopoly for search, which helped global revenues more than triple from $50 billion in 2012.\nThe hearing is likely to look back a decade into how Google’s contracts might have hampered potential rivals emerging. The commission says these prevented handset makers from selling phones using other versions of Android, such as Amazon.com Inc.’s Fire OS Android version. 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Google Counters EU Attack on Its Mobile Money-Making Machine

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