What I don’t get who gets the money if every app in the App Store must be on the third party store.
and it must give rival third-party app stores access to the full catalog of Google Play apps, unless developers opt out individually.
Is it just me or does this part sound a little weird?
So every alternative app store will be a perfect clone of Play’s app offering? Potentially without the app devs even knowing since it’s a opt-out? huh?Sounds that way to me.
Which means developers being expected by users to support installation and updating through systems they don’t use. Because we know that users have common sense and would never expect the unreasonable, especially from small devs.
This is very dumb. So if a purchase a google play store app in epic store who gets the cut, what is the cut. Does google take their percentage and then epic takes theirs.
Offer device makers or carriers money or perks to preinstall the Play Store
Does this cover GApps in general, I wonder?
it wanted … Google to stop being able to tie Android APIs to Google Play.
I feel this would have been really big news
The Apple case is already over, and Apple mostly won
Seems crazy that Google is forced to open up when Android is already kind of open but Apple get away with keeping iOS very closed
Offer developers money or perks to launch their apps on the Play Store exclusively or first
Lol, as if Epic got away with this given that it’s exactly what they do with PC games!
Google also can’t:
Share app revenue “with any person or entity that distributes Android apps” or plans to launch an app store or app platform
Offer developers money or perks to launch their apps on the Play Store exclusively or first
Offer developers money or perks not to launch their apps on rival stores
Ok, now do Epic and their paid exclusive practices.
WOW the hypocrisy
But Timmy is the king of “rules for thee but not for me”
They won’t, because the reason these are being implemented is because Google is considered a monopoly.
It’s not about making a fair playing field. Anti-monopoly stuff is about giving other companies advantages to help them compete.
Nice, I hope YouTube is next.
I’m confused about this.
You can already run third party sourced apps on android so what are they fighting about?
I’m assuming it has something to do with the payment processor?
Reading this, it’s my understanding this ruling says Google must host rival “app store” apps in Google play store and must provide them with a copy of all apps on the playstore for them to distribute. Developers do not opt in to the new app-stores, but they can opt out.
So who gets the money for that?
Yes, the article explains that.
Google will have to distribute rival third-party app stores within Google Play, and it must give rival third-party app stores access to the full catalog of Google Play apps, unless developers opt out individually.
Both of those are completely irrelevant tho. Nobody cares about other app stores being available in the playstore, and aurora already can install any app of the playstore.
And Aurora isn’t an App Store.
It’s very relevant. Currently I would have to tell someone of said app stores existence. But then would have to hope they could find it first. Then figure out how to sideload after that. Now I could just say. Go get fdroid etc etc etc and install stuff from there. Much simpler and easier.
Even so, google being forced this way will make app installation/updates much more convenient for non-root and oem-rom users. And ensure rhe aurora store or a future iteration of it aren’t going to flag peoples accounts for google to take action against them.
You know Aurora isn’t an App Store right. Just a front end for google play store.
