{"id":48778,"date":"2025-08-05T14:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48778"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:42:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:42:52","slug":"google-loses-appeal-against-epic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/05\/google-loses-appeal-against-epic\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Loses Appeal Against Epic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/litigation\/google-loses-us-appeal-over-app-store-reforms-epic-games-case-2025-07-31\/\">Mike Scarcella<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/07\/31\/epic-games-google-victory\/\">MacRumors<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/25\/07\/31\/1846249\/google-loses-epic-games-appeal-must-open-app-store-to-rivals\">Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/litigation\/google-loses-us-appeal-over-app-store-reforms-epic-games-case-2025-07-31\/\"><p>The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a unanimous ruling, <a href=\"https:\/\/fingfx.thomsonreuters.com\/gfx\/legaldocs\/zjpqoyxnnpx\/Epic%20-%20Google%20-%20CA9%20-%2020250731.pdf\">rejected<\/a>, claims from Google that the trial judge made legal errors in the antitrust case that unfairly benefited &ldquo;Fortnite&rdquo; maker Epic Games, which filed the lawsuit in 2020.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>U.S. District Judge James Donato in San Francisco <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/us-judge-orders-google-open-up-app-store-competition-2024-10-07\/\">ordered Google in October<\/a> to restore competition by allowing users to download rival app stores within its Play store and by making Play&rsquo;s app catalog available to those competitors, among other reforms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>This seems to go much further than what Apple&rsquo;s been ordered to do.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TimSweeneyEpic\/status\/1950962683387261359\">Tim Sweeney<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TimSweeneyEpic\/status\/1950962683387261359\">\n<p>Total victory in the Epic v Google appeal!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/22\/microsoft-supports-epic-against-apples-appeal\/\">Microsoft Supports Epic Against Apple&rsquo;s Appeal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/21\/fortnite-returns-to-us-app-store\/\">Fortnite Returns to US App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/19\/epic-files-motion-to-enforce-injunction\/\">Epic Files Motion to Enforce Injunction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/12\/apple-appeals-epic-anti-steering-injunction\/\">Apple Appeals Epic Anti-Steering Injunction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/13\/epic-wins-antitrust-case-with-google\/\">Epic Wins Antitrust Case With Google<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/17\/epic-sues-over-google-play-store-too\/\">Epic Sues Over Google Play Store, Too<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Scarcella (MacRumors, Slashdot): The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a unanimous ruling, rejected, claims from Google that the trial judge made legal errors in the antitrust case that unfairly benefited &ldquo;Fortnite&rdquo; maker Epic Games, which filed the lawsuit in 2020.[&#8230;]U.S. District Judge James Donato in San Francisco ordered Google in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-08-05T18:29:18Z","apple_news_api_id":"2720bf43-1edd-42c3-bd2c-707af6f9fb52","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-08-05T19:42:55Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AJyC_Qx7dQsO9LHB69vn7Ug","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,2085,1969,1768,784,41,209],"class_list":["post-48778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-antitrust","tag-epic","tag-fortnite","tag-google-play-store","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48786,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48778\/revisions\/48786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}