Google ordered to open up app store in Epic Games antitrust ruling

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ordered to open up app store in Epic Games antitrust ruling

A judge has ordered

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to open up Android to rival third-party app stores.

The ruling is part of Epic Games’ blockbuster antitrust case against

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said it plans to appeal the ruling and ask the courts to pause implementing remedies.

A US judge has ruled that

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for third-party app stores.

The ruling, made on Monday, was one of several remedies in the landmark antitrust case brought against

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by Epic Games, the company behind the video game Fortnite.

The remedies aim to give Android users more options for downloading apps and paying for transactions within them.

The judge ruled that for three years,

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will not be able to pay companies to launch apps exclusively on the Play Store or pay them to preinstall the company’s app store on devices.

The judge also ruled that

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must allow competition app stores to access

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Play apps and that it cannot require app makers to use

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Play Billing.

The remedies are set to take force from November.

Shares of

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’s parent company, Alphabet, fell 2.4% following the ruling.

In a

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said it was appealing the decision.

“The Epic verdict missed the obvious: Apple and Android clearly compete. We will appeal and ask the courts to pause implementing the remedies to maintain a consistent and safe experience for users and developers as the legal process moves forward,” the company said.

“We will keep advocating for what is best for developers, device manufacturers, and the billions of Android users around the world.”

The remedies follow a jury’s finding last year that

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had violated antitrust policies in its Play Store for Android systems. The jury found that the tech giant held a monopoly in its Play Store for Android operating systems that limited the reach of competitors’ apps and drove up prices for processing in-app purchases.

Representatives for Epic Games did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

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The Epic Games ruling is

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’s latest setback as it faces other antitrust cases affecting different parts of its sprawling business.

In August, a federal judge ruled that

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violated antitrust laws to keep a monopoly on search.

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projected it could

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if it lost its default spot on Apple devices. A judge is expected to outline potential remedies for that case this week.

Separately, the Department of Justice is suing

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for its dominance in digital advertising. The ongoing trial could

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Last month, Europe’s top court upheld a €2.4 billion ($2.67 billion)

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after ruling in 2017 that it used its search-engine dominance to favor its own comparison shopping service over competitors.

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