NCLAT reserves verdict on Google appeal against ₹1,337 crore CCI penalty for anti-competitive practices in Android market Prashant Jha 20th Mar, 2023 https://www.barandbench.com/amp/story/news/litigation/nclat-reserves-verdict-on-google-appeal-against-1337-crore-cci-penalty-for-anti-competitive-practices-in-android-market
Arguments for Google LLC Google LLC argued that CCI's order suffers from confirmation bias and is based on a similar order from the European Commission (EC) in 2018. It was stated that the company's agreements do not prevent equipment manufacturers from pre-installing competing apps with similar functionality.
Arguments for CCI ASG Venkataraman said that Google's policies in India can be summed up in five phrases: digital feudalism, digital slavery, technological captivity, chokepoint capitalism and consumer exploitation. He argued that the companies that did not sign Google's contract have gone extinct. NCLAT was told that all these agreements are linked to one another, and cannot be signed independently. It was stated that Google abused its dominant position in the Android Operating System (OS) market to indulge in unfair trade practices by restricting entry of other applications in its Play Store.