Google also can’t:
- Offer developers money or perks not to launch their apps on rival stores
This is pretty hilarious if you know about Epic’s strategy on PC.
What’s taking so long for side loading to be wide open for Apple.
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.
what the fuck. I don’t like google, I run fully Foss, and only recently installed microG, but I don’t agree with this garbage.
It’s easy enough to install any third party appstore. I don’t agree with this at all.
What’s the problem? This will make Aurora Store more stable
It’s easy enough to install any third party appstore.
There is one of the differences between the average Lemmy user vs the average android user.
I could guarantee most people in the two English courses I’m in or the humanities course I’m in would struggle with how to install a 3rd party app store since they either use apple or aren’t super tech savvy.
I’ve installed Amazon’s app store, and FDroid and never had an issue. Are these not considered third-party stores?
I’m initially feeling, “Great, now do Apple.”
But I do wonder how some of this ruling will be implemented. Forcing Google Play to host other app stores seems like it may be excessive.
Let me download F-Droid or whatever, drop anti-competitive barriers to it, don’t prevent anyone from using their device how they want. But I am savvy to the risks. There are a lot of non-techie people for whom the Google Play walled garden more keeps out threats than keeps them imprisoned, if we’re being honest. It’s one thing for Google to host an app it can scan for malware and designate as safe. Hosting an app store is impossible to verify is safe, I think.
Good overall, but I think Google isn’t entirely acting in bad faith in promising to appeal.
Nah. They tried to do the same to Apple. Somehow, Apple won.
That makes no sense at all why they impose this ruling on Android that had side loading to begin with but don’t force Apple wide open to actually allow side loading. Makes the whole thing seem like an empty gesture of nothing actually being accomplished.
rofl at this title trying to victimize google for being monopolistic assholes
How does the title victimize Google?.. It literally just summarizes the article, and then in the first sentence of the actual article they flat out call Google an illegal monopoly.
“Must crack open”
crack open has negative connotations. “Must allow” is a much more neutral way to phrase it.
“Epic Judge”
The judge isn’t epic’s, it’s just the judge that happens to be dealing with this case.
Judge:
Dudes: Whoa… epic!Ok, they got me on the second one… I was seriously wondering how epic had their own judge and it wasn’t conflict of interest.
Lots of Google cock Gobbler’s around here it seems
