Comment on Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store
ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Guys this is huge
ID/age verification for apps is being built so only google signed and integrity verified apps can run, that would prevent any age verified apps running on non-official android OS like graphene.
This will have to change when apps are coming from any random app store and can no longer use these google attestation services
Zak@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
From the article:
So it won’t affect that.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Will banks or Google itself not opt out?
Will Google not offer backroom incentives for companies to opt in to its monopoly scheme like it did before for other schemes?
Zak@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They don’t have to offer backroom incentives to the sort of organizations that want to use attestation. That would be a good future target for antitrust courts, as I’m pretty sure Google’s primary motivation to add it was Amazon launching a phone in 2014 without Google services. Amazon didn’t need Google’s help to fail at that, but perhaps the next company to try was dissuaded.
As Apple recently discovered, willful noncompliance with the antitrust court is a bad plan. Google will probably be wary of backroom deals in the short term.