Amazon says over half a dozen {hardware} distributors have indicated that they can not enter right into a TV manufacturing relationship with the e-commerce group over concern of retaliation from Google.

The revelation, formally shared for the primary time by Amazon, was made by an Amazon India unit to the nation’s antitrust watchdog as a part of a years-long investigation into Google over claims that it abuses the dominant place in Android. The watchdog discovered that Google did abuse its dominant place in Android and slapped a $162 million superb on Thursday.

As a part of the investigation, the Competition Commission of India interviewed a number of trade gamers together with Samsung, Microsoft and Mozilla. But no person spoke fairly so freely as Amazon, a fast evaluation of the 293-page order confirmed.

Here’s CCI sharing what Amazon instructed them:

Amazon has explored working with cell OEMs/ODMs/CMs who additionally manufacture non-mobile sensible media units, resembling sensible TVs, to allow these producers to distribute non-mobile sensible media units (together with sensible TVs) operating the Fire OS (e.g., Fire TV Edition (FTVE) for sensible TVs). In these discussions with OEMs, not less than seven OEMs have indicated that their skill to enter into a producing relationship of this type with Amazon is both blocked totally or considerably restricted (e.g., when it comes to geographic scope) by their contractual commitments to Google and the priority that Google would retaliate in opposition to one other of the OEM’s companies that produce Android units.

Amazon instructed the competitors regulator that in “several cases” the OEM has indicated that it can’t work with Amazon “despite a professed desire to do so in connection with smart TVs.” In some instances, Amazon stated even when the producers agreed to not work on Android-powered sensible TVs, they nonetheless had issues that by working with Amazon on Fire OS-powered TVs they could nonetheless be risking their GMS license from Google for different companies.

Additionally, corporations together with Foxconn and Panasonic tried and did not get hold of permission from Google to work with Amazon, the e-commerce big stated.

“In others, the OEM has tried and failed to obtain ‘permission’ from Google. For example, such discussions occurred with Skyworth, TPV (with respect to the Philips brand), UMC (with respect to the Sharp brand), Foxconn (with respect to the Sharp brand), and Panasonic. Panasonic also shared concerns about possible retaliation by Google against its automotive and aviation businesses if it proceeded with FTVE installation on smart TVs,” the watchdog cited Amazon as saying.

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