What you need to know
- Google was ordered to make changes in Big Play Store and Android within 14 days of its loss to Epic before the court.
- An emergency suspension approved by the court gives Google an additional week to implement the required changes.
- Google is now looking for an emergency stay and maintains that fast changes could destabilize the Android ecosystem.
After losing against epic games in court, Google is now pressure for an emergency stay. The court’s decision allows Epic to bring its app store in Google Play and gives Google for two weeks to set a list of antitrust remedies.
The ninth Circuit Court of Appeals supported the 2024 verdict this week in the case of Epic against Google, which means that Google must now follow the required changes compared to the initial decision.
The penis Google first pointed out that Google only had 14 days to make the changes, but a new update of the same point of sale reports that an emergency stay postponed the deadline for one week.
Google fights the clock after loss of epic courtyard
However, the tight deadline prompted Google to ask an emergency stay at the ninth circuit to hit the break on the decision.
Under the court order, Google must authorize developers to use their own payment systems and allow them to inform users of the means to pay, even from the Play Store. Developers must also be allowed to share links that allow users to download applications outside the Play Store and have total control over how they assess their applications.
In addition to this, Google can no longer pay telephony manufacturers, operators or developers for exclusivity or preinstallation offers. Finally, the company must work with Epic to create a system that supports third -party application stores.
Epic Games Store could happen, but not before 2026
The court’s decision obliges Google to revise the key parts of the Play Store and Android, but that will not all be hampered at the same time. Even if the CEO of Epic, Tim Sweeney, said that Epic Games Store is on the way to the Play Store, Google is not obliged to allow this for an additional eight months. Thus, third -party application stores will probably not appear on Google Play before 2026 at the earliest.
Google’s demand for staying supervising the situation as urgent, warning that compulsory changes could affect millions of users and hundreds of thousands of developers, not to mention Google’s own operations. The company argues that the precipitation of these changes could present any serious risks and question the stability of the entire Android ecosystem.
We still do not know if the ninth circuit will approve of Google’s stay request, but in one way or another, the company will have to open the door, either by hosting competing application stores on Google Play, or by giving them full access to its range of applications.
