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Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by flop_leash_973@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 28 points 11 months ago

So now Google will be forced to... allow third party app stores? Like F-Droid or Amazon and I think Yandex has a big one as well. If Epic aren't suing for damages I don't really see what the goal could be. Another win for all the lawyers I guess.

[-] Kushia@lemmy.ml 29 points 11 months ago

I imagine Epic doesn't really care about that so much as not giving Google 30% of in-game purchases in Fortnite.

[-] refurbishedrefurbisher 7 points 11 months ago

But they wouldn't have to use Google's IAP service if they distributed Fortnite as a self-updating apk on their website.

[-] Kushia@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

Maybe, but that's not where the vast majority of people look for apks and part of the lawsuit where Epic says they have a monopoly.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago

And ask normal people to give their browser app-install permissions?

Those sound very scary, not a very practical way to get a lot of users

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Google isn't being forced to do anything. The judge specifically stated they're not doing injunctions or anything. If Epic has another problem, "you can come back."

Now, that's still a ruling, and a ruling helps dissuade Google from doing certain things, but there's not likely to be anything "forced" here.

[-] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

Currently, it's.more that Google isn't being forced to do anything yet. The judge has said a few things he won't do, but the final judgement on what Google has to do are "up to Judge James Donato, who’ll decide what the appropriate remedies might be."

[-] Rose@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

If Epic aren’t suing for damages I don’t really see what the goal could be

As reported by The Verge,

Epic says it’s asking for three things: freedom for Epic and other developers to introduce their own stores without restriction, total freedom to use its own billing system, and an anti-circumvention provision “just to be sure Google can’t reintroduce the same problems through some alternative creative solution.”

Judge Donato says the last won’t happen: “We don’t do don’t- break-the-law injunctions... if you have a problem, you can come back.”

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