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‘That is not acceptable’: Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier
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Judge Donato was not having Google’s ‘anticompetitive friction.‘
Judge Donato was not having Google’s ‘anticompetitive friction.‘
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One month after Epic Games and Google seemingly stopped fighting over the future of Android app distribution, they were back in a San Francisco courtroom today — where Judge James Donato just ordered Google to make it easier to install rival app stores on Android.
It’s been nearly three years since a jury unanimously decided that Google had an illegal monopoly over Android apps, and almost two years since Judge Donato decided the best way of undoing that monopoly would be to crack open Android app distribution. Donato ordered Google to carry rival Android app stores inside its own Google Play Store, and to provide rivals with complecte access to Google’s full catalog of apps, for several years.
But Epic argued that Google is still making it too difficult to install rival app stores, showing the entire courtroom a live demo of how many steps it currently takes — and Judge Donato agreed that some of those steps were unnecessary “anticompetitive friction” and ordered Google to remove them.