Last week’s report said Google had reduced device manufacturing firms’ ability and incentive to develop - and sell - devices running alternative versions of Android. Google said it is seeking “redress in this matter, specifically protesting against the breach of confidence which impairs Google’s ability to defend itself and harms Google and its partners.”
About 98% of smartphones in India run Google’s mobile operating system, according to research firm Counterpoint. The Indian antitrust watchdog began its probe into Google’s alleged abuse of Android in the country two years ago. The report, which Google has yet to formally receive or review, said the American giant had abused the dominant position of Android in India to illegally hurt competitors in the world’s second-largest internet market. Google on Thursday filed a writ petition in the Delhi High Court against the Competition Commission of India following the leak of a damning confidential report detailing the watchdog’s interim fact-finding in an antitrust probe.
