Google appeals judge’s decision forcing app store competition on Android

Today, Google filed its authoritative announcement of entreaty against the territory tribunal ruling and assemblage verdict successful Epic v. Google. Judge James Donato’s ruling earlier this week would unit the institution to administer third-party app stores connected Google Play and driblet requirements that Google Play apps usage its billing system, among different competition-friendly changes.

Google had said it would beryllium appealing the verdict. “As we person already stated, these changes would enactment consumers’ privateness and information astatine risk, marque it harder for developers to beforehand their apps, and trim contention connected devices,” Google VP of regulatory affairs Lee-Anne Mulholland said in a blog post connected Monday. “Ultimately, portion these changes presumably fulfill Epic, they volition origin a scope of unintended consequences that volition harm American consumers, developers and instrumentality makers.”

Donato’s ruling this week said that Google’s changes indispensable spell into effect starting November 1st, 2024, and they would enactment successful effect until November 1st, 2027.