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Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight::A jury has decided for Epic Games in the Epic v. Google trial, giving the Fortnite and Unreal Engine maker a historic win in its fight to change how app stores work.

  • Switorik@lemmy.zipEnglish
    232·
    11 months ago

    If Google does then so does Apple?

    I don’t fully understand this. If you want your app on a store front, you play by their rules or provide direct alternatives.

    • GreyBeard@lemmy.oneEnglish
      101·
      11 months ago

      The problem is, they can’t provide a direct alternative. On Apple they straight can’t sideload, and on Android Google has intentionally made the experience shitty and dangerous to discourage it.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      11 months ago

      “Apple has better lawyers and protection” basically. The fact that Apple’s lock down is still a thing just boggles my mind, especially post windows internet explorer world.

    • nudny ekscentryk@szmer.infoEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      or provide direct alternatives.

      yeah. Huawei has their own, Samsung has their own, Amazon has their own, Xiaomi has their own, I imagine so do all other Chinese OEM’s. All of these run Android. What exactly does this verdict mean? What was the jury smoking and how the fuck did Google let it slide?!

  • blahsay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    11 months ago

    I just wish epic were actually the good guys in this. It’s more like bane vs joker.

  • Ibex0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    11 months ago

    Sure, Google is problematic, but I don’t see how Epic is helping here.

  • nudny ekscentryk@szmer.infoEnglish
    81·
    11 months ago

    it wants the court to tell Google that every app developer has total freedom to introduce its own app stores and its own billing systems on Android

    Don’t they? Am I missing something?

  • Gazumi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    11 months ago

    About time too. Monopolies are the antithesis of what they claim to be

  • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    It’s a historic victory, particularly because Epic mostly lost its fight against Apple two years ago when Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers decided that fight had nothing to do with apps.

    But Epic v. Google turned out to be a very different case. It hinged on secret revenue sharing deals between Google, smartphone makers, and big game developers, ones that Google execs internally believed were designed to keep rival app stores down. It showed that Google was running scared of Epic specifically. And it was all decided by a jury, unlike the Apple ruling.