The ruling, which Google has appealed, would drive Google to distribute third-party app shops inside Google Play, not require Google Play Billing for apps distributed through Google Play, and extra, with a lot of these modifications ordered to start on November 1st — simply over two weeks from at the moment.
However echoing a lot of Google’s arguments in the course of the district court docket case, which Decide Donato rejected as inadequate, the corporate now argues that the order “threatens Google Play’s capability to supply a secure and trusted consumer expertise.”
“This wouldn’t simply harm Google – this would have destructive penalties for Android customers, builders and system producers who’ve constructed thriving companies on Android, writes Google’s Lee-Anne Mulholland, VP of regulatory affairs, in a truth sheet distributed to journalists.
The very fact sheet is bulleted into 5 completely different sections, and the part headers provide you with an concept of Google’s objections:
To get a way of Google’s precise submitting with the court docket, right here’s the way it begins:
On the request of a single competitor, Epic Video games, the District Courtroom ordered intensive redesigns to Play that may expose 100-million-plus U.S. customers of Android units to substantial new safety dangers and drive basic modifications to Google’s contractual and enterprise relationships with a whole bunch of 1000’s of Google companions. The court docket gave Google simply three weeks to make many of those sweeping modifications—a Herculean job creating an unacceptable danger of security and safety failures throughout the Android ecosystem.
You possibly can learn the entire truth sheet, and Google’s entire emergency movement, beneath.