Android could soon be a very different place.

The neat part of this is that they're requiring Google to give up their library of apps to other stores and won't allow them to buy up exclusives for at least 3 years. I suspect we will see a lot of scam app stores really soon, though.

  • edge [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    But you could already sideload other stores on Android?

    won't allow them to buy up exclusives for at least 3 years

    Kind of hypocritical in a lawsuit from Epic tbh.

    • jaywalker [they/them, any]
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      3 months ago

      It's not like Epic set the terms, so not really hypocritical of them. That's to keep Google from immediately capturing the market again, though. Otherwise they would just spend enough money to make all the top apps exclusives and that would prevent competition from forming (in an ideal setting, none of this shit will really matter it's just gonna end up being Google, epic, and maybe 2 more that will end up being about the same as just having Google)

    • cobn@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      I am not a fan of epic games store myself but, Exclusives are not the problem it's monopolizing 99.99% of all apps and installs. It's OK for small app stores to have exclusives because there isn't enough money in the world a small company could spend that would destabilize Google app store at this point.