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[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 41 points 1 day ago

If you were OOTL and confused af, here is a paragraph that makes it easier to understand:

The consequences of the full permanent injunction would stretch far beyond Epic’s own store and its game Fortnite. They would force Google to effectively open up its app store to competition for three whole years. Google would have to distribute other rival app stores within the Google Play store, too, give rivals access to the full catalog of Google Play apps, and it would be banned from a variety of anticompetitive practices including a requirement that apps use Google Play Billing. You can read a summary of the details here.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

This judge actually fully understand how companies abuse two sided marketplaces and is thus forcing Google to open up both sides of the marketplace to competition. Both forcing Google to host new app stores inside the Play store so that they're visible to consumers, and forcing Google to allow those app stores to distribute the Google Play apps so that the app stores aren't crippled by a lack of developers.

This is a way way way bigger win than I could ever have hoped for.

[-] scintilla@beehaw.org 12 points 23 hours ago

That's actually fucking crazy for an american judge. Hope it actually happens.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 11 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, it would not surprise me if the Supreme Court blocked it for being too reasonable.

[-] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 20 hours ago

I'm hoping that supreme court is too tech deaf to even understand the implications this has on corps, and so that they don't take this ruling back

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, remember how big of a stink Internet Explorer on Windows was in the 90s? Imagine if Internet Explorer blocked you from downloading other browsers. That's basically what Google Play Store has been doing. Why it's taken this long to get fixed is beyond me, but I'm glad it's happening.

Hits the griddy with Thanos or something, idk, I don't play Fortnite.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 19 hours ago

three years

so not 'never'

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 31 points 1 day ago

Guys this is huge

ID/age verification for apps is being built so only google signed and integrity verified apps can run, that would prevent any age verified apps running on non-official android OS like graphene.

This will have to change when apps are coming from any random app store and can no longer use these google attestation services

[-] BarHocker@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago

Wait, is Epic Games using their Fortnite-Billions for something useful?

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

PC Gamers think Epic is the devil incarnate because they paid for exclusive games for the EGS, meanwhile they have spent the majority of their fortune on massive legal fees making a bigger impact in the world of digital anti-trust than virtually anyone else on the planet.

Allowing companies to conglomerate is the single worst thing that prevents capitalism from functioning even a little bit, and tech companies are the worst at falsely claiming that every product needs to be tied to every other product, because they can use software and continuous updates to break any third party compatibility that is created.

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