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Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge
Android will soon be a very different place.
Judge Donato’s permanent injunction also blocks Google from all sorts of other behavior that was found anticompetitive, too — we’re adding full details to this story now. Stop requiring Google Pay Billing for apps distributed on the Google Play Store(the jury found that Google had illegally tied its payment system to its app store) Let Android developers tell users about other ways to pay within the Play Store Let Android developers link to ways to download their apps outside the Play Store Let Android developers set their own prices for apps irrespective of Play Billing Both tech companies retaliated by kicking Fortnite off their app stores, only to be met by a coordinated #FreeFortnite action campaign — and a pair of lawsuits accusing each of creating illegal monopolies.
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