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Judge tells Google: Play Store shakeup coming; punishment for running a monopoly
A federal judge has indicated he will order major changes in Google’s Android app store. It's to punish the company for engineering a system that a jury declared an illegal monopoly that has hurt millions of consumers and app developers.
In protesting the judge’s potential requirements, Google has raised the specter of consumers’ devices being infected by malicious software downloaded from third-party app stores, triggering “security chaos.” But Donato repeatedly hammered on the need for a major overhaul of the Play Store, even if it causes Google headaches and huge bills that the company has estimated could run as high as $600 million, depending on what the judge orders. AP correspondent Lisa Dwyer reports a federal judge has warned Google to brace for a shakeup of the Android app store.
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