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Epic Games Wins Shocking Upset In Google Monopoly Trial (kotaku.com)
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Shady payments and deleted records resulted in the jury siding with the Fortnite maker

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[โ€“] Luccajan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For Apple i'd understand this but on Android you can download whatever apk from whatever store you like.

[โ€“] thingsiplay@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Right? Not only can you download from any place on the web and install directly, there are also established third party shops like from Samsung and Amazon or even better, F-droid for Open Source stuff.

Maybe its classified as controlling the market, because most people don't know about alternatives and therefore Google is a monopoly. Even if there are alternatives, Google is currently in a position to control almost all Android smartphones. Similar to why Windows was classified as a monopoly, even though we had Linux for ages as an alternative operating system. So this paragraph is just a guess by me.