[HN Gopher] Google is asking the court for an emergency stay fol...
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       Google is asking the court for an emergency stay following Epic's
       big win
        
       Author : saikatsg
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2025-08-01 19:39 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | fidotron wrote:
       | I wonder if Google plan on keeping any of the resulting changes
       | purely US, or if they are being compelled to do so globally.
       | 
       | > Stop sharing money or perks with phonemakers, carriers, and app
       | developers in exchange for Google Play exclusivity or
       | preinstallation
       | 
       | Going back many years, my understanding was that a certain amount
       | of Play Store revenue finds its way to carriers (and this was
       | definitely a thing in Asia too), and that this was used to
       | explain why there was a disparity in fees between the Play Store
       | and the Chrome Store.
        
         | ocdtrekkie wrote:
         | It's over. Apple lost, Google lost. They lost in the EU, and
         | they've lost in the US. Just today, Japan jumped on as well:
         | https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/01/japan-mandates-apple-must-all...
         | (This affects both companies actually.) No country who cares
         | about their own citizens is going to let Apple and Google take
         | advantage of them now that the US and the EU is putting a stop
         | to it, so it won't be long until both companies unify their
         | global policy to stop restricting this stuff.
         | 
         | What you're still going to see, is any way they can delay
         | enforcement in the large markets, because the money they're
         | raking in the government will not claw back in penalties. So
         | things like the stays of enforcement are not because they have
         | any chance of winning, but because it's profitable to draw out
         | the case. They have no chance of winning this in front of this
         | Supreme Court or any other one, for that matter.
         | 
         | The comedy here is the changes they're saying would be too hard
         | for them to do in 14 days were ones that Apple has already had
         | to accept... and they had less than 14 days to do them. So if
         | the judges are vaguely aware of the parallel Apple case, they
         | have already seen how this plays out and deny this stay request
         | too. But we'll see.
        
       | thechao wrote:
       | I have a question: do Epic's games have in-game stores. Do they
       | have to open those stores to 3rd parties, now? I mean ... fair-
       | is-fair, right?
        
         | killingtime74 wrote:
         | Well since it's not preloaded into a phone it's not the same.
         | It's part of an app you voluntarily install. Can one force
         | one's local supermarket to carry one's product.
        
       | dude250711 wrote:
       | Should they not be slapped with a big fine for not starting to
       | prepare in advance?
       | 
       | Also be denied on a basis of carefully maintaining an image of
       | allegedly hiring the best developers in the world? Who can easily
       | do it in 14 days?
       | 
       | Just charge them a huge daily fine and it will be done fast.
        
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