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Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by flop_leash_973 to c/technology
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Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.

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[–] phx 111 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But if they force Google to open their app store, I hope that do it for fucking everyone.

At least on Google devices you still can sideload apps, and fairly easy TBH. My biggest annoyance is the "you can't buy stuff in apps without giving us a cut" which fucked up stuff like ebook apps etc

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago

Yeah, the Kindle app pretty blatantly tells you why they removed in-app purchases.