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Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 month ago by RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is a wild downplay of this.

The judge is forcing Google to let third party app stores sell and distribute all the apps in the Google Play Store. That s massive.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You have it backwards. They're putting third party stores on the Play store.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Google will have to distribute rival third-party app stores within Google Play, and it must give rival third-party app stores access to the full catalog of Google Play apps, unless developers opt out individually.

It's both, and honestly a pretty genius move on the judge's part. "Oh you keep finding ways of leveraging this gate to uncompetitively make money, well how about I just mandate that you give access to both sides of the gate to everyone else."

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

That's pretty bullshit, honestly. Being forced to provide the bandwidth to hurt its own business. All while Apple gets to keep screwing people.