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Google: we let other app stores on, unlike Apple.
— Mark Bergen (@mhbergen) July 8, 2021
AGs: oh yeah, but what about Amazon?? (Amazon wouldn't say if it cooperated with AGs.) story w/ @mattmday https://t.co/l3A1okjvbE
No wait. That’s backwards. Apple is the one that’s supposed to change. https://t.co/JIEEGCYwzE
— Quinn Nelson (@SnazzyQ) July 8, 2021
Sorry I'm still stuck on this
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) July 8, 2021
"Our company mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.*”
(*Unless you want to find out how to subscribe to Netflix from within the Netflix Android app after Sept 2021)https://t.co/7XeVeXRDpe
One of the things I fought for when we built Android and am very proud made it in to 1.0 and survived to this day is the ability to side-load apps, even including alternate app stores. Ability to run any software without approval of a central authority is a powerful thing. https://t.co/0eCD2FJt7G
— Brian Swetland (@dnaltews) July 8, 2021
Google's response: "This lawsuit isn’t about helping the little guy or protecting consumers. It’s about boosting a handful of major app developers who want the benefits of Google Play without paying for it."https://t.co/k6V96GNNNZ
— Bobby Allyn (@BobbyAllyn) July 8, 2021
This one... confuses me. Google Android is one of the only such ecosystems that allows 3rd party app stores and sideloading... so why is it the one facing an antitrust lawsuit? https://t.co/gM8KinTx4Z
— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) July 7, 2021
Google engineered an open platform in the core of the Android OS, but later devised tying contracts, software anti-patterns, and a cartel relationship with OEMs to lock Android down and block real competition. It’s tragic that the “Don’t Be Evil” company let it come to this. https://t.co/iCjhDD0HLl
— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) July 7, 2021
Later this year, streaming apps will have to offer Google in-app purchases. If they don’t, they’re disallowed from even hinting that there are other ways to subscribe outside the Play Store.
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) July 8, 2021
Just like on iOS. pic.twitter.com/dmLg5gQCqt
States to Microsoft: Apple is so small it isn't in your market
— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) July 8, 2021
States to Google: Apple is so big it is its own market
If you get 4 antitrust suits in 12 months do your lawyers do the 5th one free? https://t.co/2ly6D4PoU0
— Alex Harman (@CitizenAlex3) July 7, 2021
Interesting that Google's defense here is to throw Apple under the bus. https://t.co/urU2NkNYwC
— Daisuke Wakabayashi (@daiwaka) July 8, 2021
The iPhone defense force seems to have gone silent. They were quite vocal when Apple was being sued for violating antitrust. pic.twitter.com/rMkaDLt533
— Spaceboi Scaphandre?Lord Gaben stole my wallet (@Dr_Scaphandre) July 7, 2021
I'm going to follow this case with great interest. As I read the PDF of the suit and the AGs' specific complaints, my brain kept thinking "Wait...they meant to type 'Apple' there, didn't they?" Kind of like how it was years before I stopped thinking "Downton Abbey" was a typo. https://t.co/mEqgxByS0q
— Andy Ihnatko (@Ihnatko) July 8, 2021
Pre-installing apps and not allowing companies or users to delete them is a classic carrier move. pic.twitter.com/6MM3MDEPjI
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) July 7, 2021
This isn't common knowledge? Samsung's Tizen and app store simply vanishing and suddenly they were best buds with Google.
— Angry IT Guy (@oneangryitguy) July 8, 2021
Did anyone think this came with no compensation? https://t.co/yzO0EKL35G
Android is built on the open source Linux kernel and iOS is built on the open source Mach kernel. They used open source software, built new features on top of it, and locked developers and consumers in.https://t.co/dOu2VC6gjx
— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) July 7, 2021
Google's lobbyists successfully blocked states from legislating an end to monopoly abuse of app store fees, but now their lawyers will have to fight it in court https://t.co/neMzgvdqQU
— David Dayen (@ddayen) July 7, 2021
Wait until they find out about Apple and their App Store. https://t.co/jgEbXkKZgh
— Derek Ross ? (@derekmross) July 7, 2021
This is a quite bizarre example of Google completely failing to read the room. https://t.co/p4Tt6eav4K
— Charles Arthur (@charlesarthur) July 8, 2021
Big part of the argument in new multi-state lawsuit over Google's app distribution is that the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store don't compete directly. https://t.co/M6VSN0Q3yD pic.twitter.com/6h56cBIYxI
— kif (@kifleswing) July 7, 2021
BREAKING: Today, I sued Google for violating our antitrust laws again. It’s using its monopoly power in Android to dominate app sales w/ Google Play Store. Then it forces buyers to pay using its processing service at up to a 30% fee! Most payment processors charge around 3%. 1/
— Josh Stein (@JoshStein_) July 7, 2021
Wow. Google tried to get Samsung to ditch the Galaxy Store and just make it a whitelabel for the Play Store. https://t.co/YBToWQtfxN pic.twitter.com/8iyIw2EUEe
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) July 7, 2021
You get an antitrust lawsuit, and you get an antitrust lawsuit, and you, and you, an https://t.co/J3ZIzNmzkt
— nilay patel (@reckless) July 7, 2021
Here’s Google’s initial response to the lawsuit in blogpost form. It’s a classic in the “we are confused this is so strange why is anybody mad?” genrehttps://t.co/Zct2eBQjXn
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) July 8, 2021
Saying that Google Play competes with the Apple App Store is like saying that the Windows Store has to compete with the Mac App Store. It doesn’t. Each platform is an island with captive users, and each of these stores has no competition at all. https://t.co/Vguh6GiH8d
— Nick @ The Linux Experiment (@thelinuxEXP) July 8, 2021
Anyway I know it’s July and late in the day, but I assure you this multi-state lawsuit against the Google Play Store is a big deal. Reading through it now and there are enough redactions and hints of receipts to make me believe these AG’s did not come to …play
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) July 8, 2021
I take this blog post to mean that Play will provide WebAPKs to competing browsers and that I'll be able to install other stores on my Pixel.
— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) July 8, 2021
Do I have that right? https://t.co/rAKtp9uSiA
I'm co-leading a bipartisan coalition of 37 AGs in a lawsuit against @Google for its unlawful and anticompetitive conduct around its mobile app store.
— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) July 7, 2021
This is our second lawsuit against Google in the last six months as we seek to protect consumers and competition.
“It’s strange we’re being sued about our app store” says Google, similar to how Apple was “surprised” to hear developers are frustrated with the App Store.
— Kosta Eleftheriou (@keleftheriou) July 8, 2021
These people are so oblivious to the problems they’ve created that change can no longer come from within. https://t.co/5viNzuHHQs
A coalition of 37 AGs—co-led by NYAG Letitia James—files an antitrust suit against Google following the recent stumble in the similar against Facebook.
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 7, 2021
Lawsuit: https://t.co/HFFttT5MfE pic.twitter.com/nhM3ocqOvb
Smartphones help us afford our lives & stay connected to the world. But Google uses its monopoly to unfairly restrict competition in the Google Play Store. That limits choice, stifles innovation, and drives up app prices. 36 other AGs & I just sued them. https://t.co/dxZP5rCJuI
— Attorney General Keith Ellison (@AGEllison) July 7, 2021
The latest antitrust lawsuit against Google essentially puts Apple on notice. Many of the claims made about Google's app store apply to Apple, too.https://t.co/I0Efic5NfL
— Jack Nicas (@jacknicas) July 7, 2021
This state AG case against Google is a welcome move. Alongside Apple, Google writes the rules of our app economy—& together, they abuse their gatekeeper power by wrongly enriching themselves from the pocketbooks of innovators & consumers. https://t.co/CHnOvoOmXf
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) July 8, 2021
We built an OS, available to all for free, and it even supports multiple app stores. It’s strange that this suit attacks Android when it provides an unprecedented level of openness and choice. We think they got it wrong, and we’ll defend ourselves.https://t.co/jjl6cM0ihQ
— Hiroshi Lockheimer (@lockheimer) July 8, 2021
Well done to the Utah AG’s antitrust team for spearheading this lawsuit. https://t.co/4oImfx6D3K
— Marshall Steinbaum ? (@Econ_Marshall) July 8, 2021
Exactly what we have been saying since some time !
— Vijay Shekhar Sharma (@vijayshekhar) July 8, 2021
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Thirty-six states and the District of Columbia filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google related to practices on its Google Play App Store. https://t.co/FKG4NANSXR