WASHINGTON—Lawmakers and cell app corporations took goal at Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google in a listening to Wednesday targeted on competitors considerations in regards to the corporations’ energy over their smartphone ecosystems.
The listening to marked an escalation of lawmakers’ antitrust scrutiny on smartphone makers, and significantly Apple .
Google already has been sued by federal and state authorities for alleged antitrust violations, however a lot of that scrutiny has targeted on its search and promoting companies.