Google officially has filed a petition [PDF] We ask the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals take a break with an order forcing the company to open up the Play store to competitors. If you remember, Google it lost in antitrust court filed by Epic Games after a federal jury found the company had an illegal monopoly over app distribution and in-app billing services for Android devices. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge James Donato Google ordered it allow third-party app stores to access the Google Play app catalog and make those stores available for download from its storefront. Now Google is asking the court to stay the ruling while it appeals the Epic antitrust lawsuit, saying it would expose 100 million Android users in the US to “significant new security risks.”
The company called the order “harmful and unreasonable” and said that if allowed to stand, it would threaten Google’s ability to “provide a safe and secure user experience.” If it makes third-party app stores available for download from Google Play, people may think the company is underwriting them, which “may raise real business risks.” [its] Users.” These app stores may have “less stringent protections” that could expose users to malicious and malicious apps.
It also said that giving third-party stores access to the Play catalog could hurt businesses that don’t want their products to be available alongside inappropriate or harmful content. Giving third-party stores access to its entire library could give “malicious” stores a “veil of legitimacy.” What’s more, he argued that allowing developers to opt out of their apps “creates a significant risk for fraudulent links,” as bad actors could use the feature for phishing attacks to hijack users’ devices and steal their data.
One of the key changes proposed by the court is to allow developers to remove Google Play billing as an option, which allows developers to offer their apps to Android users without paying the company a commission. However, Google said that by allowing developers to remove the computing system, it could “force an option that lacks the protections and features users expect.”
In its filing, Google stressed that the three weeks the court had given it to make these sweeping changes was too short for a “Herculean task.” This poses an “unacceptable security risk” that could cause major problems affecting the functionality of users’ Android devices, he said. The company also questioned why the court sided with Epic in the antitrust lawsuit It was on Apple’s side a video game company filed a similar case. “Apple, which requires all apps to go through its proprietary App Store, isn’t a monopoly, but Google, which built an option into its Android operating system for device makers to pre-install and users to download competing app stores, is disruptive. condemned to monopoly”.
