Google warns Android might not remain free because of EU decision
That&#x27;s basically what the EU is demanding. The EU has handed down what is an anti-tying decision. &quot;You can&#x27;t tie Android to Google Search, because that prevents competition in Search.&quot;<p>Okay then, but Google Search is what paid for Android development, so if you can&#x27;t tie them together, Android needs to seek other sources of funding. The most obvious one is some sort of licensing fee.<p>(It could also possibly fund itself from search revenue (like Firefox) and App Store fees, although the second one could be broken up by the EU too on anti-tying grounds)<p>It&#x27;s no different from when Windows was prevented from tying Windows to Internet Explorer. It opened competition in browsers (and we now have Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Brave, etc.), but it also forced browsers to find independent business models.