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The neat part of this is that they're requiring Google to give up their library of apps to other stores and won't allow them to buy up exclusives for at least 3 years. I suspect we will see a lot of scam app stores really soon, though.

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[โ€“] edge@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But you could already sideload other stores on Android?

won't allow them to buy up exclusives for at least 3 years

Kind of hypocritical in a lawsuit from Epic tbh.

[โ€“] jaywalker@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's not like Epic set the terms, so not really hypocritical of them. That's to keep Google from immediately capturing the market again, though. Otherwise they would just spend enough money to make all the top apps exclusives and that would prevent competition from forming (in an ideal setting, none of this shit will really matter it's just gonna end up being Google, epic, and maybe 2 more that will end up being about the same as just having Google)

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