The Epic Games lawsuit ended with a California judge ordering Google to open the Play Store to third parties for three years. Under this directive, the Play Store would have to offer competing apps from stores like the Epic Games Store. At the same time, these third-party stores would have to be given access to all the apps that exist in the Play Store.
According to TechCrunch, Google is prohibited from taking any cut from sales made through these third-party stores. In addition, they can no longer provide incentives for developers to offer their apps exclusively on the Play Store or prevent developers from offering their apps on competing stores.
In addition, customers should be allowed to make payments through a third system and not just the Play Store ecosystem. They also need to be provided with information about other payment methods outside of the Google ecosystem. The court granted almost everything that Epic Games requested. Google also needs to stop the directive that the Play Store needs to be installed by default on all Android device manufacturers.
Moreover, this contrasts with the ruling in Epic Games' lawsuit against Apple last year, with the judge saying Apple is not a monopoly. In this case, 9 out of 10 Epic Games claims were rejected by the court.
Google immediately filed a court appeal against this decision and said they are not a monopoly because they compete with Apple. Why Epic Games' lawsuit against Apple and Google gave different results is still unknown when the guidelines Apple imposes on developers are much stricter.
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