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Google Says Opening Up Its App Store Is Expensive And Too Much Work, Gets Told By Judge, 'We're Going To Tear The Barriers Down' (www.benzinga.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Judge James Donato intends to dismantle Google’s Android app store monopoly, following an earlier ruling declaring it illegal.
Google argued that opening its store to competitors would be too costly and complex, but the judge dismissed this claim, emphasizing that barriers will be removed.
Proposed remedies include banning discriminatory practices against rival app stores and setting up a committee to monitor compliance and report regularly.

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[–] [email protected] 315 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (37 children)

So, you’ve always been able to sideload apps on Android, Google is just using unfair practices to stop other people’s app stores from being popular.

When does this ruling affect Apple, who actually has a monopoly on their store?

[+] [email protected] -45 points 2 months ago (20 children)

dude complaining about apple being proprietary in 2024, when apple has built their entire business from day one by being the most draconian closed loop proprietary hardware/software model since personal computers were invented. i mean, sure, i get it's annoying bullshit, but you're literally getting what you signed up for when you decided apple was the way to go, lol. i hope this android/google action will lead to opening up the apple ecosystem as well, but i wouldn't use any of their bullshit if you paid me, i remember the days of the ibm clones, and apple telling us all to go fuck ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

i remember the days of the ibm clones,

Sidenote: those clones, and eventually the entire standard PC architecture we know and love today, were possible because IBM fucked up and used common, off the shelf components, with the only proprietary item being their BIOS, which was quickly reverse-engineered. It's not like IBM wanted to shower the world in third party PCs that weren't theirs. That's why they tried again to lock down the market with the PS/2, but failed to dislodge the PC.