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Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by jaywalker@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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The neat part of this is that they're requiring Google to give up their library of apps to other stores and won't allow them to buy up exclusives for at least 3 years. I suspect we will see a lot of scam app stores really soon, though.

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[–] chickentendrils@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Nice, if this means easily being able to tell Google Play Services to fuck off without having to do sketchy things to people's phones then yay. Those are some big rulings, hope none of it gets changed!

I'm a little surprised at the characterization in the headline. I only have a handful of things installed from Google's app store myself so I felt like the alternatives are out there but I guess for official services' apps it's at the brand's discretion which app stores Google Play Services will enforce they be installed from or something?

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago

if this means easily being able to tell Google Play Services to fuck off without having to do sketchy things to people’s phones then yay.

This doesn't. The article's title is pretty bad since it's mostly about google play store. 3rd party app stores need to be allowed onto the google play store instead of being sideload only.