Third-party app stores coming to Google Play next week as Epic settlement withdrawn
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Wow, thanks for sharing! This is tremendously great news!
It's not, though. They all (and all the app developers) will still have to stay under the authoritarian control of Google to be allowed anywhere nearby the "official" Androids: https://keepandroidopen.org/.
Wait, so is it not good news? Would you rather the ruling have gone in Google's favor? That's literally all I'm saying. I'm well aware of the coming lockdown.
No-no, it's still good, sorry for the poor phrasing. It's just that there's not much in it for everyone who's not Epic, or Amazon, or Samsung, or Huawei etc. Still a good legal precedent for the future battles.
Oh. Okay, fair...