Google also dismissed in the trial opposing it to Epic Games about its apps store

Google will have to adapt its play store to the United States. Consequently, so as to allow competing stores. Nevertheless, The judge also ordered several measures to prevent any monopoly. Therefore,

Epic Games, creator of games like Fortnite, also wins on appeal in the trial against Google. Similarly, The judge thus confirms that Google. However, with its Android Play Store, has a monopoly on user access to apps and financial transactions. Therefore, The court also orders Google to authorize alternative apps in its play store.

In 2020, Epic Games had brought a series of trials against Apple and Google, in order to better control integrated purchases in its popular games. In practice. Epic Games wishes to be able to use its own payment system, thus bypassing Android and iOS systems, which pay a commission to google also dismissed trial opposing Google and Apple for each purchase.

Appel – Google also dismissed trial opposing

Epic Games partially lost his trial against Apple. The company has certainly managed to enforce certain anti-monopoly measures. but Apple is currently not obliged to open its app store. On the other hand, the trial against Google had a different epilogue.

Google has not succeeded in making a previous decision canceled on appeal concerning its Play Store. Already in 2023, a jury had come to the conclusion that Google had illegally hampered competition on its platform. Google’s lawyers argued that the court had gone broken at the time, but the appeal confirmed the previous decision. Epic Games therefore won his trial against Google.

The author of Fortnite requires a redesign of the Google App Store

The judge has now ordered Google to open his play store to other. apps stores. This means that the Epic Store. already available for Android, but requiring technical knowledge in terms of lateral download (‘Sideloading’), must also be included in the Play Store. Google is also forced to make the apps of its play store accessible to the platforms of competing apps. The judge granted Google a period of eight months to do this.

In addition, Google will have to apply several other anti-monopoly measures, already decided previously within the framework of the trial against Apple. This is, for example, the prohibition of exclusivity agreements with applied developers and equipment manufacturers.

According to Google, all this will have negative consequences on consumer safety and will limit freedom of choice and innovation. This decision is particularly regrettable for the technological giant. currently entangled google also dismissed trial opposing in several trials for monopoly and surveys in the EU.