Or the judge could use the jury verdict as a way to systemically change how Google Play Store operates. (It was kicked out after Epic violated Google's app store policies and offered gamers a way to circumvent Google's app store fees. Mark Lemley, a professor at Stanford Law School who teaches courses on competition law, said the judge could go very narrow or very broad with possible remedies.įor example, the judge could order Google to let Fortnite back into its app store. District Judge James Donato, has said hearings will be held in January in San Francisco about remedies, or in plain English: What Google will have to change to comply with the law and stop operating like a monopoly?
The judge who presided over the trial, U.S. Apple does not have to make any changes to its app store until the high court has its say. Apple has appealed that to the Supreme Court. While Apple largely won, the court ordered Apple to give people more ways to pay for things in its app store, not just through Apple's own payment processor, which can take a fee of up to 30% of the transaction. Supreme Court to review the decision in the Apple case.
How will the cases affect iPhones and Androids?Įpic is asking the U.S.
