It’s so frustrating seeing this question constantly in all these threads when this has been explained.
I’ve read your comment as well as a bunch of articles and I still don’t understand it. From the article: “[Epic] wants the court to tell Google that every app developer has total freedom to introduce its own app stores and its own billing systems on Android”. My Samsung phones comes with two completely different app stores out of the box, the Google Play one and the Samsung Galaxy one. The latter offers the Epic Games Store. I really cannot wrap my head around why in this specific case Google is being anti competitive.
To get access to the Play Store, OEMs have to bundle a bunch of additional apps and services. That I get for being anti competitive but that’s not what Epic’s case was about. They didn’t sue about their web search being disadvantaged by the Google Search bar mandate. They didn’t sue because they made a web browser nobody is using because of the Chrome mandate. They sued and apparently argued successfully that they cannot get their store onto Android phones and yet, as stated, my phone already comes with two app stores and EGS is listed in the second one.
I’ve read your comment as well as a bunch of articles and I still don’t understand it. From the article: “[Epic] wants the court to tell Google that every app developer has total freedom to introduce its own app stores and its own billing systems on Android”. My Samsung phones comes with two completely different app stores out of the box, the Google Play one and the Samsung Galaxy one. The latter offers the Epic Games Store. I really cannot wrap my head around why in this specific case Google is being anti competitive.
To get access to the Play Store, OEMs have to bundle a bunch of additional apps and services. That I get for being anti competitive but that’s not what Epic’s case was about. They didn’t sue about their web search being disadvantaged by the Google Search bar mandate. They didn’t sue because they made a web browser nobody is using because of the Chrome mandate. They sued and apparently argued successfully that they cannot get their store onto Android phones and yet, as stated, my phone already comes with two app stores and EGS is listed in the second one.