That's some good news. I'll be interested to see what actually changes.
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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I’m not sure it’s ever good news when Epic wins.
Opposed to google?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The decision is a major blow to the tech giant, which has mostly been able to avoid losing lawsuits and being forced to make changes to its products despite years of investigations into allegations that its practices break competition laws.
The jury’s decision could open up other Big Tech companies to challenges on how they control pricing and payments on their massive internet platforms.
The decision represents a huge victory for Epic Games, which has fought a years-long war against Google and Apple to try to crack open the control they wield over their app stores — which dictate how billions of people find and download apps on mobile phones.
Google’s lawyers argued that the company’s app store is part of its fierce competition with Apple, and therefore shouldn’t be considered a monopoly.
“We plan to challenge the verdict,” Wilson White, Google vice president of government affairs and public policy, said in a statement.
After 4 weeks of detailed court testimony, the California jury found against the Google Play monopoly on all counts,” Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said on X, formerly Twitter.
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How many more layers of appeals are there after this before we really get the finale verdict?