The European Union, which is working on finishing up its investigation of Google’s Search business in Europe, may soon look into Google’s Android app store-related business practices, GigaOm reveals. Portugal’s Aptoide, an alternative Android app source that houses more than 200,000 titles and has more than 6 million active users, met with the European Commissions last week in preparation for its complaint submission. Aptoide is apparently-annoyed with Google for making the life of third-party Android app stores miserable. The company says that it can’t submit a fully functional third-party app store to-the Google Play Store due to the non-compete clause that govern Google’s store. Furthermore, the company says that Google has made it increasingly difficult in new Android OS versions
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