Mobile
app store Aptoide has reportedly filed an abuse of dominance complaint against
Google with the European Commission. It claims
that Google has blocked Aptoide’s own application from working on Android
devices.
Aptoide
offers an alternative to the Google Play Store and claims that Google has used
antivirus software to prevent use of the competing application purchasing
store.
Aptoide
has said that it filed the complaint with the European Commission earlier this
week and that this is not its first complaint against Google. Aptoide was a vocal complainant in the EU
abuse of dominance mobile operating and search services investigations. The Commission’s decision in its
investigation into Google’s allegedly restrictive licensing conditions imposed
on mobile phone operators is expected imminently.
Meanwhile,
Google faces litigation in the UK and Australia from Unlockd which claims that
Google abused its dominant position by threatening to remove applications using
its advertising system from the Google Play Store.
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