They don’t allow it in their TOS
Comment on Epic Win against Google
soupcat@sopuli.xyz 9 months agoI don’t understand how they lost against Apple but won against Google - which actually does allow you to download alternative app stores.
witchdoctor@lemmy.basedcount.com 9 months ago
soupcat@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
O, how you can’t have the alternative app stores on the google app store? I mean I suppose.
bitcrafter@programming.dev 9 months ago
I think that much of the disparity is explained by the fact that the Apple case was decided by a judge but the Google case was decided by a jury, so the people making the decisions had very different perspectives.
Also, because the decisions were so different despite the similarities between them, Google probably actually has a pretty good case it can make in the appeals process, so I wouldn’t consider this outcome to be the final word just yet.
tristan@aussie.zone 9 months ago
It came down to the fact that Google has a lot of deals with different companies giving favourable terms whereas Apple either didn’t do that or was smart enough to hide it
soupcat@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
Ahh, that makes sense.