Google will appeal the decision: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/11/23996902/google-will-appeal-the-epic-v-google-verdict
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How the heck does Google lose this but apple win it? Not that funny. Weird news.
apple has a deeper lobbyist checkbook
The only thing we’ve learned today is that Apple’s lawyers are far better than Google’s…
So now what?
Look, I despise Google as much as anyone these days, and I’m glad they’re taking a beating this time around, but at the same time, it’s also kind of bullshit. And it’s not even because you can sideload apps, or have alternate appstores on Android, but because we have yet to see the same standards being applied to Apple.
I think a lot of people here are missing the point that in a court legal != pro-consumer. The US has monopoly laws that Apple (annoyingly) follows but Google does not.
Apple follows the monopoly laws but Google doesn’t? Which one allows you to install alternative app stores again?
what a hulk of bullshit. I hate Google as much as anyone else but how the fuck do they have a monopoly over the app store when you can literally download .apk files from anywhere and install it?
Also the Browser extension store?
Wouldn’t they just argue you can use developer mode to install the extension? Or is that not available on mobile?
On mobile there are no extensions at all.
Shouldn’t this set a precedent for apple as well?
Apple’s reasoning is that they also sell their own machines… still bs if you ask me.
Thing is, Apple is only 30% of the market. Google is the other 70%
Not in the US. The estimates I’ve seen are closer to 50-50 which is really saying something about how effective Apple has been.
