{"id":14276,"date":"2024-10-07T21:21:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T21:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=14276"},"modified":"2024-10-07T22:29:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T22:29:19","slug":"google-must-open-android-to-other-app-stores-judge-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=14276","title":{"rendered":"Google Must Open Android to Other App Stores, Judge Says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The internet giant was ordered by a federal judge to make a series of changes to address its anticompetitive conduct. <\/p>\n

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In December, a federal jury in San Francisco found that Google had violated antitrust law<\/a> by imposing high fees and stringent rules on Epic Games<\/a> and other app developers in Google\u2019s app store.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Judge James Donato of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ordered Google to make a series of changes to address its anticompetitive conduct. For three years starting Nov. 1, the company must allow developers to bring their own app stores to the Android mobile operating system. It must also allow app makers to charge users with their own billing systems, outside of the Android ecosystem.<\/p>\n

Google will be entitled to charge developers \u201ca reasonable fee for these services,\u201d which must be based on Google\u2019s actual costs. <\/p>\n

Judge Donato acknowledged that Google would be unhappy with his decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoogle\u2019s modus operandi in this case has been to deluge the court in an ocean of comments, many of which were cursory and undeveloped,\u201d Judge Donato wrote in his ruling. He compared the volume of Google\u2019s arguments to a \u201cblunderbuss.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The order was a victory for Epic, the maker of the popular video game Fortnite, which has waged legal battles against Google and Apple since 2020 in an effort to weaken their power over the app economy.<\/p>\n

Epic had petitioned the court to crack open Google\u2019s Android system so that it could offer its own app store while sidestepping the company\u2019s rules and fees, and Judge Donato\u2019s ruling fulfilled most of those requests, but will still force Epic and other developers to pay Google for Android\u2019s security and content moderation services.<\/p>\n

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The internet giant was ordered by a federal judge to make a series of changes to address its anticompetitive conduct. In December, a federal jury in San Francisco found that Google had violated antitrust law by imposing high fees and stringent rules on Epic Games and other app developers in Google\u2019s app store.On Monday, Judge James Donato of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ordered Google to make a series of changes to address its anticompetitive conduct. For three years starting Nov. 1, the company must allow developers to bring their own app stores to the Android mobile operating system. It must also allow app makers to charge users with their own billing systems, outside of the Android ecosystem.Google will be entitled to charge developers \u201ca reasonable fee for these services,\u201d which must be based on Google\u2019s actual costs. Judge Donato acknowledged that Google would be unhappy with his decision.\u201cGoogle\u2019s modus operandi in this case has been to deluge the court in an ocean of comments, many of which were cursory and undeveloped,\u201d Judge Donato wrote in his ruling. He compared the volume of Google\u2019s arguments to a \u201cblunderbuss.\u201dThe order was a victory for Epic, the maker of the popular video game Fortnite, which has waged legal battles against Google and Apple since 2020 in an effort to weaken their power over the app economy.Epic had petitioned the court to crack open Google\u2019s Android system so that it could offer its own app store while sidestepping the company\u2019s rules and fees, and Judge Donato\u2019s ruling fulfilled most of those requests, but will still force Epic and other developers to pay Google for Android\u2019s security and content moderation services.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14278,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14279,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14276\/revisions\/14279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}