Comment on Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store
Zak@lemmy.world 5 days agoFrom the article:
developers can opt out if they don’t want their apps to be available more widely
So it won’t affect that.
Comment on Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store
Zak@lemmy.world 5 days agoFrom the article:
developers can opt out if they don’t want their apps to be available more widely
So it won’t affect that.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 days 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 4 days 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.