{"id":1196,"date":"2025-09-15T23:56:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/the-supreme-court-is-googles-last-hope-to-avoid-an-epic-reckoning-in-october\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T23:56:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:56:24","slug":"the-supreme-court-is-googles-last-hope-to-avoid-an-epic-reckoning-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/the-supreme-court-is-googles-last-hope-to-avoid-an-epic-reckoning-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court is Google\u2019s last hope to avoid an Epic reckoning in October"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is done with its role in the Epic Google case, and Google won\u2019t be happy with the result. On Friday, the court completely denied its petition to have its Epic v. Google<\/em> case re-heard \u2014 and pressed play on a permanent injunction<\/a> that will force Google to begin cracking open its Android app store.<\/p>\n

Unless or until the US Supreme Court decides to hear the case, Google will be forced to let developers bypass its Google Play Billing app store payment system, and let them link to outside app store downloads, within 30 days. And that\u2019s just the start. Google will also be forced to carry rival app stores inside the Google Play Store and share its full catalog of apps<\/a> with those stores by summer 2026 unless the Supreme Court grants a stay.<\/p>\n

Epic already won its case at the Ninth Circuit on July 31st,<\/a> when a three-judge panel decided not to overturn the unanimous jury verdict from 2023<\/a> that Google\u2019s app store and payment systems had become illegal monopolies. But Google argued that the Supreme Court might see things differently, and asked for what\u2019s called an \u201cen banc\u201d review where the whole Ninth Circuit weighs in. <\/p>\n

But not a single additional Ninth Circuit judge wanted to re-hear the case, the court wrote on Friday, denying Google\u2019s petition. And with that, the Ninth Circuit also restarted the clock on forcefully cracking open Android<\/a>, giving the company a new deadline of just 30 days to begin complying, and 10 months until Google must open up its app store to rivals. That\u2019s up from 14 days and 8 months previously.<\/p>\n

So, what must Google do by October? Here\u2019s the TL;DR:<\/p>\n