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India fines Google $162M for anti-competitive practices on Android

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Re: India fines Google $162M for anti-competitive practices on Android

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Post by rajivjain »

The American technology companies are looking increasingly vulnerable especially internationally. Tech companies are the new wave of American mega corporations. I wonder how the mega corporation of past managed to navigate these challenges? Did US government play any role in protecting the US companies? If so, what drove it, more business friendly Washington, more effective lobbying, or something else?

Re: India fines Google $162M for anti-competitive practices on Android

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Post by klabb3 »

rajivjain wrote: post #92

The American technology companies are looking increasingly vulnerable especially internationally. Tech companies are the new wave of American mega corporations. I wonder how the mega corporation of past managed to navigate these challenges? Did US government play any role in protecting the US companies? If so, what drove it, more business friendly Washington, more effective lobbying, or something else?

It's $160M in a country with 600M phones, where 97% of those are Android. Obviously Google doesn't want fines to be public (to avoid encouraging others), but it's not that much money in the greater context.

Re: India fines Google $162M for anti-competitive practices on Android

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Post by heavyset_go »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #71
gernb wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can I have the same for Micrsoft and Apple for both mobile and desktop? For Apple I get it's different since they don't have OEMs selling Macs/iPhones/iPads but I feel like many similar restrictions should apply Examples: > Google shall allow the users, during the initial device setup, to choose their default search engine for all search entry points. > Google shall not offer any monetary/ other incentives to, or ent…

Nobody cares about Chromebooks. They only matter in schools and they're almost certainly illegal in schools, so that will self-solve when those charges get addressed.

Illegal how?

Re: India fines Google $162M for anti-competitive practices on Android

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tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #79
tatpacc wrote: post #4

Here is the link to original order [ https://www.cci.gov.in/antitrust/press-release/details/261/0 ] some experts 13. Accordingly, in terms of the provisions of Section 27 of the Act, the Commission has imposed monetary penalty as well as issued cease and desist order against Google from indulging in anti-competitive practices that have been found to be in contravention of the provisions of Section 4 of the Act. Some…

> ix. Google shall allow the developers of app stores to distribute their app stores through Play Store. This is a big one. I hope they require the same for iOS, but for some reason that doesn't seem to be happening anywhere.

The US seems to be one of the few markets where iOS is used by a majority of users.

Re: India fines Google $162M for anti-competitive practices on Android

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Post by heavyset_go »

smaudet wrote: post #86
nmridul wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except Motorola (now owned by Lenovo and claims closest to default Android) most of the Chinese phones still come with their own bloatware. Xiaomi has many default apps including their own Messaging, file manager, dialer. These come with their own user agreement and privacy policy. Some of these apps are good to have while others are just bloat.

Motorola is chinese??

I believe Lenovo is, but it's been a while since I've actually looked it up.

Re: India fines Google $162M for anti-competitive practices on Android

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Post by whimsicalism »

klabb3 wrote: post #94
rajivjain wrote: post #92

The American technology companies are looking increasingly vulnerable especially internationally. Tech companies are the new wave of American mega corporations. I wonder how the mega corporation of past managed to navigate these challenges? Did US government play any role in protecting the US companies? If so, what drove it, more business friendly Washington, more effective lobbying, or something else?

It's $160M in a country with 600M phones, where 97% of those are Android. Obviously Google doesn't want fines to be public (to avoid encouraging others), but it's not that much money in the greater context.

1% of profit, that is pretty big.

Re: India fines Google $162M for anti-competitive practices on Android

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Post by whimsicalism »

atdrummond wrote: post #7
colpabar wrote: post #5

I feel like I see headlines like this all the time. Some country/government fines some tech giant some large amount of money. But I always wonder, do these fines ever get paid?

Yes. But they’re a rounding error for FAANG firms.

If i am reading the other threads correctly this is more than yearly profit in India
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