"The EU Commission is going to call Google in and give it a really hard talking to for offering what Google's users rather like to have"
Wrong. Consumer takes what they can get.In the mobile world, the relevant choices are either Apple's walled garden or Google's walled garden.
Having Gmail, YouTube, hangouts, google map, google play video/music/etc... applications pre-installed in the phone with no official way to remove is the exact same as for Microsoft and Internet Explorer.
Speaking about browsers, Chrome is the only application that I could remove. I guess it would have been too obvious if it weren't...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
