“Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, appeared on Capitol Hill in September to answer questions about whether his company’s products are anti-competitive,” Chloe Albanesius reports for PC Magazine. “Several senators, however, had a few more questions for Schmidt, which they submitted to him in writing. The Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee today released Schmidt’s responses to those queries, which again focused on Google’s competitiveness, the Android operating system, and more.”
Albanesius reports, “In backtracking on a quote in which he said Apple was not a competitive threat, Schmidt pointed to Siri, which he called a ‘significant development.’ He went on to say that ‘Google has many strong competitors and we sometimes fail to anticipate the competitive threat posed by new methods of accessing information.'”
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