Regulators are in favor of punishing the US giant for misusing the power of Android, said the block’s high court adviser.
The European Union’s Advocate General of Justice Julian Kokot has said in a non -binding opinion that Google’s appeal should fail because the legal arguments presented by the US Tech Dev have been shortened.
“Google gained a dominant position in several markets in the Android ecosystem and thus benefited from the impact of the network that enabled users to ensure that consumers use Google Search,” Cocot said. “As a result, Google accessed data that enabled it to improve its service.”
The high court of the block often focuses on the opinion of its advisers in its final decisions, which usually follow in several months.
Google said it was disappointed with this opinion, and that if the Block High Court eventually follows it, this decision will invest in investment and Android consumers.
The European Commission refused to comment.
Android Fine – which was actually 4.3 billion euros (about 42,890 crores) before the European Union’s general court in 2022 – is one of the many European Union penalties that targeted the big tech, which has been a penalty against US President Donald Trump.
The Android case was one of the four that made the former European Union’s chief Margaret Vestjar’s efforts to eliminate the growing power of major tech companies.
Before the European Union’s Anti -Trust Commissioner was replaced by the Spanish Socialist Teresa Rabira, the Westerner imposed a fine of more than 8 billion euros (about Rs 79 79796 crore), which also supported the US Department of Justice’s advice that Google’s business was also echoed.
The final decision of the European Union’s High Court may be important for the future of the Android Business model – which has provided free software in exchange for the conditions imposed on mobile phone manufacturers.
Such contracts incited the commission’s anger in 2018, when Watchdog accused Alfabit Ink of Google of Google of three separate types of illegal treatment, which helped to dominate his search engine, and included a record fine with the order.
First, he said that Google was already forcing handset makers to install the Google Search app and Chrome browser as a prerequisite for its Play Store-Android apps as a prerequisite.
Second, the European Union said that Google paid some major manufacturers and operators on the condition that they installed the Google Search app exclusively in advance.
Finally, the European Union said that a company based in Mountain View, California, prevented manufacturers from running an alternative version of Android, who already wanted to install apps, which is not approved by Google.
In his September 2022 decision in the lower general court, the judges upheld many of the commission’s arguments, but after finding out that the regulators did not provide enough evidence for specific abuses.
As a January hearing in the appeal against the decision, Google’s lawyers argued that the company’s success was due to innovation, not the brutal force, and that the European Union punished Google for its high qualities, attractiveness and innovation. “
Far from traditional distrust cases, Google has also found itself under intense scrutiny by the EU’s digital markets Act, which determines strict caretakers on the Big Tech behavior.
In March, Brussels -based executives have allegedly violated the Mountain View, California’s headquarters firm in favor of housing services in their vast search empire, and to prevent app developers from offering steering users out of their playstore, to prevent more in the future.
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