Google Android Case

The company's new flagship phone, the Mate 70, will debut HarmonyOS Next, the iteration of its operating system that does away with remnants of Android in favor of entirely indigenous tech

The court also set aside directives that would have forced the tech giant to allow individual app store developers to distribute their app store through the Google Play Store

Competition Commission of India imposed a monetary fine of Rs 1337.76 crore on the tech giant as well as a list of directives it must follow

Android is a mobile operating system, licensed open source, in which Google has invested billions of dollars since its release in the fall of 2008

"Google will be required to make far-reaching changes to the Android mobile platform which has been in place for the last 14-15 years"

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) in October fined the Alphabet Inc unit $161 million for exploiting its dominant position in the market for Android which powers 97% of smartphones in India

Google has already been fined in previous two cases for "abusing its market dominant position" in connection with the Android mobile device ecosystem

European Union has slapped Google with a whopping 4.34-billion-euro fine for abusing the dominance of its Android OS