At the U.S. Department of JusticeAllegationsGoogle's violation of market monopoly lawsuitTestifying in courtIn a statement, Peter Fitzgerald, vice president of platform and device partnerships at Google, confirmed that the company pays a high monthly fee to its partner Samsung to pre-install its Gemini artificial intelligence service app on Samsung smartphones.
Google and Samsung began this collaboration in January this year, and the two parties signed a cooperation agreement for at least two years. Google will pay Samsung a fixed monthly fee and obtain a share of advertising exposure through the Gemini artificial intelligence service pre-installed on Samsung phones.
Judge Amit Metha, who is in charge of this lawsuit, initially believed that this move violated market monopoly competition, but he was prepared to hear more testimony to decide what adjustments Google should make in the future to improve its market monopoly problem.
In addition to paying high fees to Samsung in exchange for the market penetration of Gemini artificial intelligence services and more online advertising exposure generated by Gemini artificial intelligence services, relevant testimony also confirmed that Google also paid Samsung up to US$2020 billion between 2023 and 80 in exchange for Google Search, Google Play Store and Google Assistant digital assistant services to be used as default service items on Samsung mobile devices.
However, Google appears to plan to appeal the ruling.
