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Google and Epic give up fighting — third-party Android app stores are coming next week in US (www.theverge.com)

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[–] jello@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

No, this is about official support from Google.

Judge James Donato originally agreed that forcing Google to carry rival Android app stores within its own Google Play store, and share its own entire catalog of apps with those stores, would be the best way of undoing the company’s illegal monopoly over Android applications.

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there may be two different tracks for Android: stores-within-a-store in the United States, and Registered App Stores everywhere else.