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Epic vs. Google judge says he'll 'tear the barriers down' on Google's app store
“That world is changing,” says Judge Donato.
While Epic won the jury trial last December, it’s been up to the judge to decide how to fix the damage that Google’s monopoly caused. In his closing argument, Pomerantz came close to suggesting that the direction Judge Donato is aiming constitutes Soviet Russia-era communism, arguing that courts have previously said “central planning,” of the sort that would force Google to carry rival app stores in order to create new competition, isn’t allowed. Instead, he’ll order Epic and Google to create a “technical compliance and monitoring committee,” with one representative from Epic, one from Google, and a third they both agree on, to arbitrate the technical details and report back to the court every 90 days or so.
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