Google said on Friday it will cooperate with India's competition authority after the Supreme Court upheld stringent antitrust directives forcing the U.S. firm to change how it markets its popular Android platform in a key growth market.
growth of its Android ecosystem will stall. It said it would be forced to alter arrangements with more than 1,100 device manufacturers and thousands of app developers if the directives kick in.
The Indian directives "will set precedence on how much Google is forced to open up the Android platform to third party local app stores, apps and services," said Neil Shah, research director at Counterpoint Research. In Europe, Google was fined for putting in place what the Commission called unlawful restrictions on Android mobile device makers. Google is still challenging the record $4.3 billion fine in that case.
Google told the Supreme Court if smartphone makers cherry pick which apps to preload, as the CCI ordered, it would "prevent Google from securing pre-installation of its revenue-generating apps and, consequently, force Google to charge a licence fee."
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