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Google Says Opening Up Its App Store Is Expensive And Too Much Work, Gets Told By Judge, 'We're Going To Tear The Barriers Down' (www.benzinga.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Judge James Donato intends to dismantle Google’s Android app store monopoly, following an earlier ruling declaring it illegal.
Google argued that opening its store to competitors would be too costly and complex, but the judge dismissed this claim, emphasizing that barriers will be removed.
Proposed remedies include banning discriminatory practices against rival app stores and setting up a committee to monitor compliance and report regularly.

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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 315 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (37 children)

So, you’ve always been able to sideload apps on Android, Google is just using unfair practices to stop other people’s app stores from being popular.

When does this ruling affect Apple, who actually has a monopoly on their store?

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 83 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

It doesn't, although Epic simultaneously sued Apple over this in a separate suit. Their arguments against Google and Apple were different, and in the Apple case the judge sided with Apple on practically every count.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games_v._Apple

Notably, the one aspect that was not ruled in Apple's favor was their "anti-steering" policy, which prohibited developers from informing users about different app stores or payment methods within an iOS app. The crux of the ruling boiled down to Apple not having a monopoly over the smartphone market or mobile gaming in general since people can "just" go out and buy an Android device and do business with Google instead (while avoiding mention that Google has near identical policies re: the Play store and takes the same cut of a developer's revenue).

Needless to say, pretty much every sane person on Earth plus a pretty wide spread of other tech companies can clearly see that the ruling in the Epic v. Apple case was complete bullshit, especially in light of this ruling in the Google one.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Google is feeling robbed at the moment. I really want the same judge to dismantle Apple's grip

[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just out of curiosity, are you an Apple user, looking for alternatives to Apple's AppStore?

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

No. I'm an Android user who wishes for freedom for his (half) brethren who for whatever reason want to use a closed garden

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