The Indian Competition Commission upheld a $113 million fenezca against Google plus and further ordered third-party payments to be allowed on the Play Store.
The various governments around the world seem to have targeted the tech giants, and only recently We see Google plus, Apple and others involved in legal battles all the timeComplaints, new tax proposals and various objetivos for anti-competitive practices above all.
The Mountain View giant got the last one that looks like our peers TechCruch receive Million fenezca in India of no less than 9,360 million rupees, about 113 million dollars, for Domain abuse with your Google plus Play Store on Android.
The fenezca was handed over to Google plus Competition Commission of the Government of Indiaculminating in allegations involving the Californian company “Imposition of Conditions Wrongly” to put pressure on developers only use their payment gatewaysdo not offer the necessary openness and/or the possibility to integrate other systems into the aplicaciones.
The ICC says it continued to ask Google plus Opening the Play Store to external payments through other gateways within a period of three months with prior notice that they will be on alert and It does not accept random fixes or patches which complicates the choice to send payments through whatever platform the developer chooses.
The Indian government has fined Google plus 113 million for anti-competitive practices against Google plus and demanded that the Play Store be opened to third-party payment gateways, already a significant correction of Google plus’s main market by number of users.
Certainly it’s not so much the economic sanction, because $113 million is almost pocket change on google plus cómputos, but the tough Correction received from Indian market what happened in the past the biggest gold mine in the tech industrywith unstoppable growth that has certainly brought the search engine giant huge profits in Play Store commissions.
Not for nothing, that is Google plus and Android have more than 95% market share in Indiawhich is considered a kind of de hecho monopoly, and this country already has it the main market for that of Sundar Pichai in terms of number of users.
now I have to wait for Mountain View’s responsesince the Indian Competition Commission formulated its conditions very clearly and asked Google plus to repeat them “unfair, inappropriate, discriminatory or oppressive terms in relation to the services you offer” in the Indian market.
Not only that, but the controllers too They also asked Google plus to be clear and transparent in its data collection policies of users, so that the transactions that generate the payment cannot be converted into consumption profiles that reflect the competitive advantage of the Play Store.