Android will soon be a very different place.
  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
    141·
    2 months ago

    This is a wild downplay of this.

    The judge is forcing Google to let third party app stores sell and distribute all the apps in the Google Play Store. That s massive.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      You have it backwards. They’re putting third party stores on the Play store.

      • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        Google will have to distribute rival third-party app stores within Google Play, and it must give rival third-party app stores access to the full catalog of Google Play apps, unless developers opt out individually.

        It’s both, and honestly a pretty genius move on the judge’s part. “Oh you keep finding ways of leveraging this gate to uncompetitively make money, well how about I just mandate that you give access to both sides of the gate to everyone else.”

        • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          61·
          2 months ago

          That’s pretty bullshit, honestly. Being forced to provide the bandwidth to hurt its own business. All while Apple gets to keep screwing people.