{"id":798447,"date":"2021-05-13T11:01:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T11:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/05\/13\/google-respectfully-disagrees-with-italys-antitrust-decision\/"},"modified":"2021-05-13T11:01:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T11:01:42","slug":"google-respectfully-disagrees-with-italys-antitrust-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/05\/13\/google-respectfully-disagrees-with-italys-antitrust-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Google &#8216;respectfully disagrees&#8217; with Italy&#8217;s antitrust decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google &#8220;respectfully disagrees&#8221; with Italy&#8217;s antitrust decision to fine it 102 million euros ($123 million) for abuse of dominant position due to its Android mobile operating system and app store Google Play, a spokesman for the company said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s competition watchdog said earlier on Thursday the internet giant did not allow JuicePass, an electric vehicle (EV) services app from Enel X, to operate on Android Auto &#8211; which allows apps to be used while driving &#8211; unfairly limiting its use while favouring Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman said Google&#8217;s priority for Android Auto was to ensure safety during driving and that it had stringent guidelines regarding apps supported by Android Auto.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are thousands of apps compatible with Android Auto, and our goal is to enable even more developers to make their apps available over time,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google &#8220;respectfully disagrees&#8221; with Italy&#8217;s antitrust decision to fine it 102 million euros ($123 million) for abuse of dominant position due to its Android mobile operating system and app store Google Play, a spokesman for the company said on Thursday. Italy&#8217;s competition watchdog said earlier on Thursday the internet giant did not allow JuicePass, an electric vehicle (EV) services app from Enel X, to operate on Android Auto &#8211; which allows apps to be used while driving &#8211; unfairly limiting its use while favouring Google Maps. The spokesman said Google&#8217;s priority for Android Auto was to ensure safety during driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798447","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}