Google, one of the world’s largest internet companies, may be forced to sell Chrome and Android.
If you missed it, Epic Games scored a significant victory against Google in the US yesterday. US Judge James Donato yesterday announced his final decision in the long-running case between Epic Games and Google. Accordingly, Google opened the “Play Store” application store. will have to open it to competition for three years. As part of the decision, the company will add competing third-party application stores to the Play Store and will allow competing third-party application stores to access all Play Store applications, unless the developers request otherwise. The process is not limited to just this. In the new period, Google will no longer require Play Billing for applications distributed on the Play Store and will allow developers to offer other payment methods on the Play Store. Additionally, the company will allow developers to link to download paths outside of the Play Store and set their own pricing structures independent of Play Billing. Google will no longer be able to offer money to developers to publish their apps only on the Play Store and not launch on a competing platform. On top of all that, the company won’t be able to offer incentives to smartphone manufacturers to pre-install the Play Store on their devices.
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Lawyers from the Ministry of Justice began to propose solutions to correct the illegal behavior of Google, which was determined to be a monopolist in the USA, and to re-establish competition in the search engine market. He is also considering literally splitting up Google. Making a statement on this issue, the internet giant said that it may be forced to sell Chrome and Android by the decision of the Ministry of Justice and that this may cause serious negativities. conveys:
“We’ve invested billions of dollars in Chrome and Android. Chrome is a secure, fast and free browser, and its open source code underpins many competing browsers. Android is a secure, innovative and free open source operating system that offers a wide range of options in the smartphone market. Android helps keep smartphone costs low.
Because both Chrome and Android help people access the web and use our products, we offer them (and their underlying code) for free. Few companies have the ability to keep them open source or invest in them at the level we do. Make no mistake: separating them from us would change their business models, increase the cost of devices, and weaken Android and the Google Play Store in their strong competition with Apple’s iPhone and App Store.”