US Supreme Court denies Google’s appeal against opening up the Play Store

07 October 2025
Yet another Epic Games win.

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  • Anonymous
  • Sr6
  • 10 Oct 2025

Great!
Next most phone manufacturers should be sued for locking down the bootloader on most devices.
There is lots of money $$$ to be made here for the regulators.

    Guy, 07 Oct 2025One day people will have to pay for these services that we&... moreA USA director suddenly lands in a Finland based Nokia Corporation and kills all its projects including Symbian, even though customers supported it hugely. 20 million phones used to get sold without a single ad on the TV.
    Now, everything digital you use is USA controlled. And you expect me to be thankful for Android which literally owns everything we have digitally.
    Everything.
    Wait, what full picture were you talking about again?

      Leanzazzy, 08 Oct 2025I wish they would come with only the most basic 5 apps prel... moreI do agree. But that's relevant only for tech geeks.
      Older people (and the majority) don't care, they just want to install apps without the fuss of looking how or even troubleshooting problems.

      A proposed option is to have a screen while setting up phone that you can disable installation of play store and start from scratch (like you said, those main apps)

        Leanzazzy, 08 Oct 2025I wish they would come with only the most basic 5 apps prel... morebrowser choice should be up to the phone owner, not oem's, or at least it should be removable with ease.

          FatShady, 07 Oct 2025hopefully enough countries will force them to stop forcing ... moreI wish they would come with only the most basic 5 apps preloaded:
          Phone, Messages, Camera, Browser and File Manager.

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            • Anonymous
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            • 08 Oct 2025

            I hope they think twice before removing sideloading.

              FatShady, 07 Oct 2025hopefully enough countries will force them to stop forcing ... moreThat's the ideal Android phone everyone wants, no bloatware

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                • Nicky Nick
                • IKb
                • 08 Oct 2025

                Anonymous, 07 Oct 2025I'm not sure this is a good idea. One important th... moreThere is no fact. Open Source means open source.

                  Anonymous, 07 Oct 2025Could you please tell us what they've done wrong? Prov... moreRead what the lawsuit is about. Their practices stifle competition, which is a BAD thing. And i'm not even talking about their data collection stuff, that is even worse. Why are you taking the side of google?

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                    • fren
                    • 2xy
                    • 07 Oct 2025

                    I can smell all kind of scam in near future happening once google is forced to allow outside payment. trust me those evil scammers will exploit this loophole sooner or later.

                      Crapoogle even tried to appeal against this? Lmao!
                      God, how I wish all these overgrown, monopolistic, fat, greedy, sellout, useless companies would collapse as soon as possible!

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                        • Anonymous
                        • pXR
                        • 07 Oct 2025

                        I'm not sure this is a good idea.

                        One important thing that makes me confident about buying apps on my phone, especially Android (where you can more easily find anything and everything since it's a fairly open OS), is the fact that I trust the Play Store's purchasing mechanism.

                        If developers started putting anything and everything as a payment processor, I'd be the first to run away because of all the scam that one can find. On the other hand, this could mean that we'll have payment processor competitors a bit like Stripe... Let's wait and see

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                          • Anonymous
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                          • 07 Oct 2025

                          Not a big deal for me.

                            Many criticized Epic but it did benefit consumers after all.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • y2e
                              • 07 Oct 2025

                              Hikari, 07 Oct 2025"Leave the mega corporation alone, they did nothing wr... moreCould you please tell us what they've done wrong? Provided services without charging money for them? What a crime.. Hopefully they get punished for this and start charging users to use their stuff!

                                Guy, 07 Oct 2025One day people will have to pay for these services that we&... more"Leave the mega corporation alone, they did nothing wrong." ahh

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                                  • SH7
                                  • 07 Oct 2025

                                  all of a sudden is freedom of choice is the Stone Age over for Android users and able to introduce a URL to another repository

                                    ...And here, Google has been trying to restrict sideloading with the next Android update. How ironic.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • U@6
                                      • 07 Oct 2025

                                      Moon, 07 Oct 2025If Google hadn't created Android, you would be playing... moreTime to move to Apple concentration camp, where i can download and install app from other sources

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                                        • 07 Oct 2025

                                        OfficialTRider, 07 Oct 2025Google did not create Android, it bought it. Also, there wo... moreThe difference is that on Android devices, you can easily install any modified versions of Android, such as GrapheneOS, and enjoy life without Google.

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