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Google's loss is our gain: Xbox purchases and gaming are coming to Android


And in the European Union, the Epic Games Store is already available — Android gaming is getting a major boost.

The move comes following a landmark decision by Judge James Donato in federal court that ruled Google must open up the Android app ecosystem to competitors. It's hard not to view Microsoft's shift toward an open-ecosystem future as a company failure since Xbox lost this generation of the console wars to PlayStation by just about every metric. We might start to see regulatory bodies and courts push harder against big tech and its monopolistic practices following this early showing, because it only took a few days for consumers to benefit from the U.S.'s injunction against Google.

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