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‘That is not acceptable’: Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2026
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The one "currently available" app store where? There are many of them.
The one you can install via Google's Play Store.
It's literally the topic of the entire thread.
The cases decision was about rival app stores in general. The bulk of those aren't on Google's marketplace.
Please read the article.
Does everyone here have a paid subscription to The Verge? I'm on lemmy. There's never or rarely, a post here that isn't behind a paywall. Is there some trick I am missing out on?
If the site shows you the whole article and then throws up some annoying popup that prevents you from reading it, it's almost certainly using JavaScript to do that. (This is most of them.)
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