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Google files appeal in Epic case, set for February 2025 (9to5google.com)
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[-] ub0x5jtk 1 points 20 hours ago

The ruling was Absurd.

  • Make an open system
  • Add optional license to provide a dozen of your apps as a price for your infrastructure for the app marketplace (security scans, performance optimizations based on runtime, networking, marketing etc)
  • your platform has a lot of competition, Google is the worst search engine these day, iPhone is dropping price sharply to aggressively grab new customers, China decouples, and you allow all competition to provide their own stores since day one.
  • get sued and lose in a case where you need to provide 100% of your app library to Epic which is doing much worse practices, and their only motive is higher profit margin with zero interest in any improvement, in fact everything can only get worse - fragmented, low quality of EGS, no innovation just see how Amazon Appstore stiffles APK format.

Google is by no means perfect, or even good, but this ruling is outright bullshit, I'd go as far as saying Trump wouldn't be as dumb as these judges, and that means a lot.

I don't want to say they are influenced by Chinese money, because I don't have the evidence. Though Epic being Chinese and the ruling benefiting Chinese companies make me alert.

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