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

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    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.

    • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.ml
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      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.

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          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.

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          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

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      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.

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        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.”

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      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.”