{"id":1003249,"date":"2026-04-16T11:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003249"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:10:35","slug":"google-sued-by-aptoide-accuses-of-android-app-distribution-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/16\/google-sued-by-aptoide-accuses-of-android-app-distribution-monopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"Google sued by Aptoide, accuses of Android app distribution monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, Google has faced multiple lawsuits accusing the maker of Android of exercising a monopoly over how apps are distributed on the platform. After the famous dispute involving Epic Games that led to Google bringing changes in Google Play policy, a new lawsuit has been filed by Portuguese app store operator Aptoide, accusing Google of maintaining an illegal monopoly over Android app distribution and in-app billing systems. The complaint has been lodged in a US federal court in San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, Google has faced multiple lawsuits accusing the maker of Android of exercising a monopoly over how apps are distributed on the platform. After the famous dispute involving Epic Games that led to Google bringing changes in Google Play policy, a new lawsuit has been filed by Portuguese app store operator Aptoide, accusing Google of maintaining an illegal monopoly over Android app distribution and in-app billing systems. The complaint has been lodged in a US federal court in San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}