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‘That is not acceptable’: Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier
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Judge Donato was not having Google’s ‘anticompetitive friction.‘.
Key facts
- One month after Epic Games and Google seemingly stopped fighting over the future of Android app distribution, they were back in a San Francisco courtroom today and Judge Donato agreed that some
- The reporter want every possible variation that’s even only 70 percent properly phrased,” Donato ordered
- First, Epic’s lawyer Yonatan Even showed that if you search Google’s Play Store for the term “store for apps,” no third-party app stores appear, only physical stores
- Judge Donato ordered Google to fix that one, too, telling the company that it didn’t make any sense
Summary
One month after Epic Games and Google seemingly stopped fighting over the future of Android app distribution, they were back in a San Francisco courtroom today and Judge Donato agreed that some of those steps were unnecessary “anticompetitive friction” and ordered Google to remove them. First, Epic’s lawyer Yonatan Even showed that if you search Google’s Play Store for the term “store for apps,” no third-party app stores appear, only physical stores. “That is not acceptable, that has to be fixed. Similarly, Judge Donato bristled when he saw that users have to press a “view” button before they can press an “install” button when choosing to install a third-party app store, and so that will change too.