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' - Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL)
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Judge James Donato plans to dismantle Google's Android app store monopoly following a federal jury's ruling, rejecting Google's claims that opening the store to rivals would be too burdensome and proposing strict oversight to ensure compliance.
  • 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.
  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    897·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      355·
      3 months ago

      The judge was probably an Apple fanboy and/or in their pocket.

      The amount of times I’ve heard arguments on Apple forums/news articles being pro-Apple-walled-garden is too high.

      • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, I was about to say. Was it even SCOTUS? They could have been frugal and bought the judge a mid-sized SUV instead of an RV.

      • hemmes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        92·
        3 months ago

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

        • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          102·
          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