October 8, 2024

Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge

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Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge

Google’s Android app store is an illegal monopoly — and now it will have to change.

Today, Judge James Donato issued his final ruling in Epic v. Google, ordering Google to effectively open up the Google Play app store to competition for three whole years. 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. These were Epic’s biggest asks, and they’re not all that Epic has won today.

Starting November 1st, 2024, and ending November 1st, 2027, Google must also:

Stop requiring Google Pay Billing for apps distributed on the Google Play Store (the jury found that Google had…

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