Epic v. Google: everything we learned in Fortnite court
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Judge Donato says that with three years to set up competing app stores on Android, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and more will surely pile on. “The problem we have now is the box has already been rigged terribly with anticompetitive conduct so that Google is way ahead.”
The overarching question: “Three years and a day, what’s going to happen?”
Bernheim says even if they build those stores, Google will cut off Amazon and co. “Google at that point in time is going to say you can’t have an app that downloads things.” Or erect more friction to sideloading apps.
I don’t quite understand how that changes if were six years rather than three, or why Google wouldn’t shut down its proposed Registered App Store program the same way if that got approved.
