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India’s antitrust regulators have ruled that Google has been unfairly competing with its huge financial resources for forcing Android to pre-install the official app.
Hindered fork version OS development
Reuters reported that the impetus dates back to 2019, when two researchers and a law school student filed a complaint with the Competition Commission of India. The authorities spent two years investigating and publishing a 750-page report, concluding that Google had a fault.
According to the report, Google made it difficult to use the forked version of Android and forced device vendors to pre-install the official app with their influence as a weapon. In the document, regulators said Google’s actions “imposed unreasonable conditions on device makers” and that Google Play’s policies were “one-sided, ambiguous, biased and arbitrary.”
Regulators make similar decisions in South Korea
The Indian regulator’s decision that “device vendors have diminished the ability and motivation to develop and sell devices that run on Android forks” is strangely the recent sanctions imposed by Korean regulators on Google. It’s similar.
South Korean regulators have just fined Google 207.4 billion won (about 19.4 billion yen) for obstructing the rise of Android’s rival OS, and each country is in step with the “Google siege network” The composition of the layout can be confirmed again.
“We look forward to demonstrating how Android has driven competition and innovation,” Google said in a statement. Apple is also expected to be investigated by Indian regulators for App Store fees, which are considered “Apple taxes.”
Source: Reuters, AppleInsider
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