A federal judge in California ruled this week that Google must stop making it difficult for consumers to install third-party Android app stores, saying the corporate giant was using “anticompetitive friction” to prevent people from doing so.
It was the latest chapter in the years-long legal battle between Google and Epic Games, which originally accused the corporate giant in 2020 of restricting easy access to third-party app stores and non-Google payment methods, and behaving as a monopoly.
Installing a third-party Android app store such as Aptoide Games hasn’t been a smooth process. For example, if you go to the Play Store on an Android phone…
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