Play Store changes coming this month as SCOTUS declines to freeze antitrust remedies

The changes are included in the Play Store, despite the coordinated efforts of Google to maintain the status -kVO. The company asked the US Supreme Court to freeze parts of the Play Store antitrust decree, while it appealed, but the high court rejected this petition. This means that the first elements of the antimonopoly products that won the Epic Games should be realized only in weeks.

The case in the application store is one of the three ongoing antimonopoly actions against Google, but it is the farthest. Google lost the case in 2023, and in 2024, the District Judge of the United States James Donato ordered A raft of broad changes Aims to violate the illegal monopoly of Google to the distribution of Android applications. In July Google lost his original appealLeaving it with a short time before the start of mandatory changes.

His petition to the Supreme Court became the final city of Mary Google to avoid the opening of a game store even crack. Google asked the judges to suspend legal protection funds in anticipation of the appeal, but the court refused to do this, Reuters reportsWe hope that Google has planned this opportunity because it should implement the first stage of legal protection funds until October 22.

More dramatic changes will not occur until July 2026, but this month will still bring serious changes to the Android application. Google will have to allow developers to refer to alternative methods of payment and loading outside the Play store, and it cannot force developers to use the Google Play Billing in the Play store. Google is also prohibited from setting prices for developers.

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