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Judge orders Google to calculate the costs of Epic’s biggest Play Store demand

Google has a month to figure out the cost of compliance.

By Sean Hollister, a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. Google will file by June 24, 2024, a proffer stating in detail the tech work required and economic costs, if any, to provide “Catalog Access” and “Library Porting” to competing app stores for a period of up to 6 years. According to the order, Epic will get a chance to question Google’s experts and engineers about the accuracy of their estimates, and file a rebuttal, before a final hearing on August 14th.

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