as Galaxy Store services on Android will be discontinued.
KFTC Chairperson Joh Sung-wook believes that this new ruling will allow more competitors in the mobile OS and app segments to emerge. Google intends to make an appeal, and said that the regulator’s decision “ignores the benefits offered by Android’s compatibility with other programs”. However, the KFTC has actually been looking into this matter since 2016, so this enforces the idea that they are not going to backtrack on its decision. Furthermore, Google is also being investigated in other separate cases that are related to restricting its competitors concerning its Play Store and the advertisement segment.
If South Korea is making moves to curb what is seen as anti-competitive behavour by Google and Apple, would this mean that other countries would follow suit? This could be likely since Australia was also tightening regulations on Apple, Google and WeChat’s digital payment systems to address competitive concerns.
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