Implode-o-Meter News - Europe Just Screwed over Android (And You, Too)

Accepting these terms is the price to pay for the cost of Google's maintenance of the ecosystem, and it has helped maintain a level of consistency for consumers who expect an Android device to ship with a few basic services, like a web browser and messaging app. Google looks after all that for free, and manufacturers are able to take advantage of it to sell their hardware. Europe has a problem with that because it supposedly suppresses competition--Microsoft's Bing search engine, I guess.
... While all this is happening, Apple is able to sell the iPhone with defaults that can't be changed by the consumer at all, locking them into a particular set of tools. The only reason this isn't a problem for the EU is that Apple built a fully-closed ecosystem, on its own devices, so it isn't dictating decisions for any third-party manufacturer--because no third party can make an iPhone.

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Europe Just Screwed over Android (And You, Too)