Dumping only really has any meaning in international trade, and it refers to predatory pricing policy -- such as when Japanese steel companies were accused of dumping steel on the US market in order to kill their US competition a few years ago. To any reasonable person, there is a clear difference between steel and a mobile operating system. But, supposing this were in scope, if Google makes a profit from mobile advertising or takes a small cut of sales of Android phones by bundling Google apps, Android is still not going for less than market value in any kind of predatory manner.
If Android is being "dumped" to get an advantage in the advertising market, you would have to take the argument further on to other absurd conclusions. Should free newspapers be prevented from "dumping" in racks nearby paid-subscription newspapers? For that matter, is Craigslist dumping classified ads? Should Apple accuse Google for dumping email service in order to help corner the advertising market, since gmail is free and mac.com email is not? The absurdity continues.
I know exact definition of dumping involves international trade and all that. I used this word not literally, but because it's the closest term to what's happening.
Good example on newspapers: what is happening to them (they are dying) is one consequence of the web-ads model propagated by Google. Are you better off now with them dying and thousands of people being laid off, while Google's pockets get fatter and fatter?
Free newspapers don't offer quite the same content as subscriptions. However if they started reprinting materials from subscription-based ones and offering the same material for free, along with their ads, they should probably be restricted from this - for copyright violation. This example is much closer to what's happening with Google. And this is also the reason why some newspapers and authors don't want to be on Google.
This is not true. Newspapers are dying because the marginal cost of distributing the content is almost zero. There is no other good way to make money off of news content besides advertising. And note that newspapers were already making a significant portion of their revenue from advertising. The failings of the newspaper business model have almost nothing to do with Google.
Here's a definition of dumping: http://www.glin.gov/subjectTermIndex.action?searchDetails.qu...
Dumping only really has any meaning in international trade, and it refers to predatory pricing policy -- such as when Japanese steel companies were accused of dumping steel on the US market in order to kill their US competition a few years ago. To any reasonable person, there is a clear difference between steel and a mobile operating system. But, supposing this were in scope, if Google makes a profit from mobile advertising or takes a small cut of sales of Android phones by bundling Google apps, Android is still not going for less than market value in any kind of predatory manner.
If Android is being "dumped" to get an advantage in the advertising market, you would have to take the argument further on to other absurd conclusions. Should free newspapers be prevented from "dumping" in racks nearby paid-subscription newspapers? For that matter, is Craigslist dumping classified ads? Should Apple accuse Google for dumping email service in order to help corner the advertising market, since gmail is free and mac.com email is not? The absurdity continues.