Google, in fight against record EU fine, slams regulators for ignoring Apple

The European Commission fined Google in 2018, saying that it had used Android since 2011 to thwart rivals and cement its dominance in general internet search

Google claims to be "a vigorous market disrupter" in the competition between Apple and Android.

Google has criticised EU competition regulators for ignoring rival Apple as it launched a bid to get Europe's second-highest court to annul a record €4.34bn fine related to its Android operating system.

Far from holding back rivals and harming users, Android has been a massive success story of competition at work, representatives of Google told a panel of five judges at the General Court in Luxembourg at the start of a five-day hearing.