Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. - eviltoast

For the next three years, Google must meet the following criteria:

  • Allow third-party app stores for Android, and let those app stores distribute all the same apps as are available in Google Play (app developers can opt out of this);
  • Distribute third-party app stores as apps, so users can switch app stores by downloading a new one from Google Play, in just the same way as they’d install any app;
  • Allow apps to use any payment processor, not just Google’s 30 percent money-printing machine;
  • Permit app vendors to tell users about other ways to pay for the things they buy in-app;
  • Permit app vendors to set their own prices.

Google is also prohibited from using its cash to fence out rivals, for example, by:

  • Offering incentives to app vendors to launch first on Google Play, or to be exclusive to Google Play;
  • Offering incentives to app vendors to avoid rival app stores;
  • Offering incentives to hardware makers to pre-install Google Play;
  • Offering incentives to hardware makers not to install rival app stores.
  • Benign@fedia.io
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    11 hours ago

    US law doesn’t care what companies do to consumers. The law only cares what they do to other companies. Apple own their own hardware production and ecosystem, so they aren’t harming other companies (directly).

    No conspiracy needed.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      Apple absolutely harms other companies to the point where are taken to court all the time.

      There’s no such thing as “their own ecosystem”

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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        10 hours ago

        Yes, but those companies are poorer, and have lower tier legal teams.

        Das capitalism baby!