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Google Says Opening Up Its App Store Is Expensive And Too Much Work, Gets Told By Judge, 'We're Going To Tear The Barriers Down' (www.benzinga.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Judge James Donato intends to dismantle Google’s Android app store monopoly, following an earlier ruling declaring it illegal.
Google argued that opening its store to competitors would be too costly and complex, but the judge dismissed this claim, emphasizing that barriers will be removed.
Proposed remedies include banning discriminatory practices against rival app stores and setting up a committee to monitor compliance and report regularly.

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[–] [email protected] 315 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (37 children)

So, you’ve always been able to sideload apps on Android, Google is just using unfair practices to stop other people’s app stores from being popular.

When does this ruling affect Apple, who actually has a monopoly on their store?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Here’s a comment from yesterday that explains it much better than I could. Quick and dirty tldr is that this has nothing to do with consumer impact, it’s like a business to business thing.

https://lemmy.world/comment/11794585

Side question, is anyone aware of how to properly link comments on lemmy? I know I can link communities with [email protected] and users with @[email protected], but I’ve just realized I have no idea how to post instance agnostic links to comments or posts.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

is anyone aware of how to properly link comments on lemmy?

As far as I know, there is no way right now. There's some discussion of having a more agnostic identifier here, but seemingly no movement yet.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987

The best you can get right now is using an extension like Instance Assistant for Lemmy, but that only helps you, not the person you're responding to.

That said, if you use a mobile app (I use Thunder) it will usually handle post/comment links in-app, so it doesn't matter what instance they link to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks for confirming my suspicions! I had found that GitHub issue and actually tried the tilde link even though there’s no commits that mention it, just because the bang and at formatting work.

I do mainly use the Arctic app to interact with lemmy which also handles the url in app fine, but I like to do things the “right” way whenever possible.

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