Indonesia accuses Google of abusing monopoly

Indonesia's competition regulator, the Komisi Pengawas Persaingan Usaha (KPPU) has alleged that Google has violated local anti-monopoly laws by abusing its dominant position for the distribution of apps and its requirement that developers must use its payment systems. The regulator last week announced a sixty-day investigation …

[Anonymous Coward]

The WORLD accused Google of abusing monopoly

There fixed it for you.

I don't use Google anything unless I really, really, really have to. (just like Amazon)

[IGotOut]

The cost of business.

Google and their kind will fight legislation in each and every country. Only when it becomes more cost effective to have a global policy, rather than local one's, will anything change.

It's why amazon have no plastic packaging in some countries, yet others it's rammed full of it.

Its why some fast food chains have reasonable quality meat in some places, and left over sludge in others.

The only way to fix the issues is for countries to have the same tough requirements, but until then, they will fight all the way.

[Anonymous Coward]

Old man

... phone lines ... are units from a bygone era.

[david 12]

Re: Old man

I assume there was some kind of meaningful equivalency to mobile phone units, but it would have been informative if the author had confirmed that. If not, then just garbage statistics.