The European Union Antitrust regulators are currently investigating Google for engaging in bundling or tying their less popular products with the dominant Android platform in mobile phones for anticompetitive reasons. The EU has said that Google by “requiring mobile phone manufacturers to pre-install Google Search and the Google Chrome browser to get access to other Google apps, the U.S. company was harming consumers by stifling competition.”
Based on your understanding of reasons for tying, explain the rationale for EU’s claim. How would it prove that Google indeed was tying for anticompetitive reasons?