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Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

No, then you won't even be able to use in-app purchases.

I didn't realize that. Never actually tried to buy anything. You can't even make purchases in the Samsung store? Or Huawei?

Android supposedly has an option to side load, and even install another store, but in order to do it, you get through a series of warnings, and such stores can't even be on the play store.

Yes you can, and I have several times. You are put through a series of warnings just like you are when downloading an executable in the browser, or installing it on Windows. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Play store has a rule, that additional charges need to go through them

But we're not talking about Play Store...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

No, then you won’t even be able to use in-app purchases.

I didn’t realize that. Never actually tried to buy anything. You can’t even make purchases in the Samsung store? Or Huawei?

OP is mistaken - you can make purchases in side-loaded apps, only thing is that app can't use the Google Play APIs for that (obviously) - but they're free to use PayPal or stripe or w/e payment method. Google has no way of preventing sideloaded apps from doing that, and it's not like they can ban them either.

You are put through a series of warnings just like you are when downloading an executable in the browser, or installing it on Windows.

Actually, there isn't even any actual "warning" - at least not on my Fold 4 - there was just one dialog to enable installation from unknown sources, with a "Settings" button that takes you directly to the page where you need to tick the box next to your browser, and as soon as you tick the box, you can click on the "Install" button to install it. That's it. None of the dialogs you interact with has any actual warnings.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But we're not talking about Play Store...

Epic is, in the law suite they just won.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So the issue is that they don't want to pay commission on in-app purchases after people download their app from the Google Play store?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I believe that is the crux of it. And apparently part of the trial exposed that some big players have special deals such that don't have to pay those in-app purchase commissions, or at least have a smaller commission. And that's what makes it an abuse of their market position.