EU regulators are seeking information from 400 companies to establish if there are competition problems in the market for voice assistants such as Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and other voice assistants that could lead to antitrust cases.
Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition“It sends an important message to powerful operators in these market that we are watching them and that they need to do business in line with competition rules,” European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager told a news conference.
The EU executive said its interest was prompted by the large amounts of user data involved in consumer “internet of things” devices and it wanted to make sure market players did not use their control of such data to hurt competition or thwart rivals.
Vestager, who can fine companies up to 10% of their global turnover for breaching EU antitrust rules, has made the tech industry the centrepiece of her enforcement efforts, taking on Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook in recent years.
I’d like to put you back in your place but I’m not sure which rock it is.
“Commie Crusher” eh?
-I’m not a Commie.
-I believe in representative government, not corporate government.
-Your nickname sounds like you’re compensating.
Did any voice assistant company complain that they were being unfairly competed against? No? Vestager doesn’t have enough work, she investigates where no complaints exist?
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Good. Its called “doing their job”.
They work for EU citizens, not corporations.
When your job is flinging “political crap,” like loser Vestager’s, you’re a useless bureaucrat waste, not a useful member of society.
Corporations need to be put back in their place.
I’d like to put you back in your place but I’m not sure which rock it is.
“Commie Crusher” eh?
-I’m not a Commie.
-I believe in representative government, not corporate government.
-Your nickname sounds like you’re compensating.
Did any voice assistant company complain that they were being unfairly competed against? No? Vestager doesn’t have enough work, she investigates where no complaints exist?