Is Google’s Play Store monopoly over? US court orders tech giant to carry rival app stores

Google Play Store is poised for a major transformation in the US after a district court ordered the tech giant to enable competition in its Android app ecosystem by taking certain steps.

After hearing Epic Games’ lawsuit against Google, a federal jury had unanimously decided last year that the Google Play Store and the Google Play Billing service were an illegal monopoly. In his ruling on Monday, October 7, Judge James Donato outlined what Google has to do to fix the damage caused by its monopoly.