Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play
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美国地区法官詹姆斯·多纳托裁定，谷歌在Play商店中提供第三方应用商店下载的流程存在不必要的“反竞争障碍”，要求其一周内整改。谷歌本周初已允许Aptoide Games等第三方商店上架，但法官认为执行力度不足。此前谷歌在2023年反垄断诉讼中败诉，法院要求其向用户提供非谷歌来源应用的便捷获取途径。谷歌曾试图与Epic和解以避免此结果，但最终仍需遵守裁决。
Google began offering third-party app store downloads in the Play Store earlier this week, but US District Judge James Donato says the company isn't doing enough. After reviewing the process for accessing the first non-Google store, Donato ruled that Google has added unnecessary "anticompetitive friction," ordering the company to rectify the issues.
While Epic and Google are patching things up with a global partnership agreement, the two are still on opposite sides of the antitrust case in the US. Google lost the case in 2023, and the intervening years have been about determining how to implement remedies to address Google's anticompetitive behavior. One of the court's key elements is the requirement that Google include third-party app stores in the Play Store, giving users an easy way to get apps from non-Google sources. Aptoide Games became the first such app store recently.
However, Google worked hard to avoid this outcome, attempting to settle with Epic to keep third-party app stores out. When it was forced to admit the Aptoide store under the terms of the ruling, Google didn't exactly put up a banner welcoming third-party app stores. In fact, Judge Donato found in a Thursday hearing that Google's implementation was not good enough, according to The Verge.
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