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Nice, if this means easily being able to tell Google Play Services to fuck off without having to do sketchy things to people's phones then yay. Those are some big rulings, hope none of it gets changed!
I'm a little surprised at the characterization in the headline. I only have a handful of things installed from Google's app store myself so I felt like the alternatives are out there but I guess for official services' apps it's at the brand's discretion which app stores Google Play Services will enforce they be installed from or something?
if this means easily being able to tell Google Play Services to fuck off without having to do sketchy things to people’s phones then yay.
This doesn't. The article's title is pretty bad since it's mostly about google play store. 3rd party app stores need to be allowed onto the google play store instead of being sideload only.
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.
I am not a fan of epic games store myself but, Exclusives are not the problem it's monopolizing 99.99% of all apps and installs. It's OK for small app stores to have exclusives because there isn't enough money in the world a small company could spend that would destabilize Google app store at this point.
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)