Do you assume a choose will make Google enable an Android model of the Epic Video games Retailer to reside inside its personal Google Play Retailer, let the Epic Video games Retailer have entry to each app inside Google Play, and let Android customers start sideloading apps with a single faucet? As a result of Epic’s asking for these and a complete lot extra within the aftermath of Epic v. Google.
On December eleventh, Epic gained a shock victory in opposition to Google in federal courtroom. A jury unanimously determined that Google had turned its Google Play app retailer and Google Play Billing service into an unlawful monopoly. However what did Epic win? That’s but to be determined by Decide James Donato, and in the present day, we’re lastly studying exactly what Epic believes it ought to get.
As you’ll see within the 16-page proposed injunction and my bullet factors beneath, Epic’s asking for lots — it doesn’t simply wish to block Google from most each type of probably unfair habits it highlighted throughout the trial but additionally proactively and immediately put third-party app shops and billing programs on the identical footing with Google Play and Google Play Billing in a single fell swoop.
Even in the event you may assume that honest, it’s unlikely a choose will go that far. Right this moment’s Epic doc is simply the start line in a negotiation — Google will get to file its response by Might 2nd, after which Decide Donato will hear from consultants on either side at a listening to on Might twenty third. And Google will attraction, too, when the district courtroom case is all stated and performed.
Okay, right here’s the doc, following my tough abstract of what Epic’s asking for.
What Epic desires from Google:
That’s broad strokes; listed below are the specifics.
See you on Might twenty third, I suppose!
