Google faces yet another antitrust tussle - this time over smart TVs
And it is repeating now as Google is now accused of abusing its dominant position in the Android smart-television market by creating barriers for companies which wanted to use or modify its android operating systems for their smart televisions.
The complaint, filed by two lawyers, Kshitiz Arya and Purushottam Anand, is now with the Indian antitrust watchdog, the Competition Commission of India . The antitrust commission has asked Google to reply to the charges, while the company has apparently asked for more time to come up with its response.
The two antitrust lawyers say that Google prevents companies it partners with from using both Android and a modified version of it on different devices.
Googles terms and conditions also mandate that if a company uses the Amazon Fire TV platform for its smart TVs, it cannot offer Play Store and Google apps on its smartphones.
Market data has it that three in five TVs sold in India are based on the Android TV platform, while on the smartphone segment, Android has over 90% market share.
In May, the anti-competition body also looked into whether Google abused its market position to promote its mobile payments app.
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