Factbox: India's antitrust directives on Android that have spooked Google - Reuters

NEW DELHI, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Google has been jolted aft the Indian antitrust authorization sought changes to however it markets its Android system, which powers 97% of smartphones successful the world's 2nd biggest mobile market.

As a Jan. 19 deadline approaches, the U.S. steadfast has asked the Supreme Court to enactment on hold the directives of the Competition Commission of India (CCI), arguing that they risk stalling growth of its Android ecosystem successful the country.

Google licenses the strategy to smartphone makers, but critics accidental its restrictions are anti-competitive. The U.S. steadfast says Android provides much prime for everyone and specified pacts assistance support the operating strategy free.

Google has said that the changes sought by CCI would effect successful the astir far-reaching alterations for the Android mobile level successful the past 14 to 15 years.

Here are the authority's 10 directives:

* Google should not beryllium allowed to licence its Play Store, from which users download mobile apps, connected information that instrumentality manufacturers pre-install Google apps specified arsenic YouTube, Gmail oregon the Chrome browser.

* Google should not unit instrumentality makers to pre-install a bouquet of apps oregon determine their placement.

* Google should beryllium restrained from striking agreements that guarantee exclusivity for its hunt services connected astute devices.

* Google should not restrict smartphone users from removing its pre-installed specified arsenic Google Maps, Gmail and Youtube, which presently cannot beryllium deleted from Android phones, connected which they are supplied pre-installed.

* Google should fto users prime a hunt motor of prime for each applicable services erstwhile mounting up a telephone for the archetypal time.

* Google should not enforce immoderate curbs successful India connected the signifier of "sideloading", oregon downloading apps without utilizing its app store.

* Google should let third-party app stores to beryllium hosted connected Google's Play Store.

* Competitors and app developers should not beryllium denied entree to the programming interface of Google Play services, the underlying bundle strategy that powers Android devices. This directive is meant to guarantee compatibility betwixt apps connected Play Store and third-party app stores based connected Android variants, the antitrust authorization has said.

* Google should not incentivise oregon obligate manufacturers for not selling astute devices based connected Android variants.

* The CCI asked Google not to restrict makers of Android smartphones from processing different devices, specified arsenic tablets oregon TVs based connected modified versions of Android.

Reporting by Munsif Vengattil and Aditya Kalra successful New Delhi; Editing by Clarence Fernandez

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