Google has abused the dominant function of Android in India to illegally harm competition withinside the world’s 2d biggest net market, a -yr antitrust probe via way of means of the nation’s watchdog has determined.

The Android-maker decreased tool production companies’ capacity and incentive to develop — and sell — gadgets walking opportunity variations of Android (extra popularly called forks), the probe determined, in step with humans have had been briefed at the findings.

Additionally, the file determined Google’s requirement to make it obligatory for tool producers to pre-set up its apps to be in violation of India’s opposition law.

More than 5 dozen companies such as Amazon and Apple answered queries from the Indian watchdog — the Competition Commission of India — in the course of the route of the investigation, the file stated.

The Indian watchdog additionally determined troubles with the manner Google has enforced rules on Play Store, pronouncing the ones are “one-sided, ambiguous, vague, biased and arbitrary.”

Google stated it appears ahead to have interaction with the CCI to illustrate how “Android has caused extra opposition and innovation, now no longer less.” Indian newspaper Times of India first wrote approximately the file.

The file’s findings — which might be but to be officially posted via way of means of the CCI — is the modern setback for Google in India, in which it’s miles dealing with numerous different antitrust probes and daggers from a developing variety of home startups, founders, and investors.

The Alliance of Digital India Foundation, a set of 350 startups, founders, and investors, lauded the CCI file’s findings and stated the watchdog’s step “is in step with the Indian virtual ecosystem’s needs.”