Lawyers for Alphabet's Google and Fortnite Maker EPIC Games are AMP Its App Store.
Google has argued in court filings to the San Francisco-Based 9th Us Circuit Court of appeals that a trial judge made media media legal errors in the antitrust case that UNFIETED EPIC GAMES.
EPIC CUSED Google in a 2020 Lawsuit of Monopolising How Consures Access Apps on Android Devices and how they pay for transactions within apps. The Cary, North Carolina-Based Company Convined a San Francisco Jury In 2023 that google illegally stifled competition.
Us District Judge James Donato Ordered Google in October to Restore Competition by Allowing Users to Download Rival App Stores Within Its Play Store and By Making Play ' Ther reforms.
The order is on hold as the 9th circuit weighs google's appeal.
The tech giant has argued that its play store compets fiercely with apple's app store, and that Donato unfailly allowed EPIC to Tell Jurors that Google and Apple are not competors for apps for apps
Google also said in its appearance It said the judge was acting as “a Central Planner Responsible for Product Design.”
EPIC Has Asked The 9th Circuit to Reject that Arguments and Accused Google of a “Years-Long Strategy to Suppress Competition Among App Stores and Payment Solutions.”
In a statement, epic said it will “fight to ensure that the Jury's verdict and the court's injunction are upheld and google is help to account for its anticompetic behavior.”
Microsoft filed a brief backing epic, as Did the us justice department and federal trade commission.
The 9th Circuit could issue a ruling later in the year. Its decision can be appeared to the US Supreme Court.
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