{"id":3378,"date":"2026-08-14T01:53:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/that-is-not-acceptable-judge-orders-google-to-make-rival-app-store-installs-easier\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T01:53:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:53:04","slug":"that-is-not-acceptable-judge-orders-google-to-make-rival-app-store-installs-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/that-is-not-acceptable-judge-orders-google-to-make-rival-app-store-installs-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018That is not acceptable\u2019: Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo illustration of Sundar Pichai and Tim Sweeney with the Google logo, Google Play logo, and the Epic Games logo.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo illustration by Cath Virginia \/ The Verge | Photos by Philip Pacheco, Bloomberg, Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/25047560\/236883_Epic_Vs_Google_D_CVirginia.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One month after Epic Games and Google <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/965792\/google-epic-withdraw-injunction-third-party-app-stores-coming-google-play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seemingly stopped fighting<\/a> over the future of Android app distribution, they were back in a San Francisco courtroom today &#8211; where Judge James Donato just ordered Google to make it easier to install <em>rival <\/em>app stores on Android. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&rsquo;s been nearly three years since a jury unanimously decided that Google had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23994174\/epic-google-trial-jury-verdict-monopoly-google-play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an illegal monopoly<\/a> over Android apps, and almost two years since Judge Donato decided <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/2024\/10\/7\/24243316\/epic-google-permanent-injunction-ruling-third-party-stores\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the best way of undoing that monopoly<\/a> would be to crack open Android app distribution. Donato ordered Google to carry rival Android app stores <em>inside its own Google Play Store<\/em>, and to provide rivals with complecte acc \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/979852\/that-is-not-acceptable-judge-orders-google-to-make-rival-app-store-installs-easier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One month after Epic Games and Google seemingly stopped fighting over the future of Android app distribution, they were back [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}