However Decide Donato is certainly contemplating them. He’s ordered Google to calculate the prices of complying with these calls for by June twenty fourth, one month from immediately:
Google will file by June 24, 2024, a proffer stating intimately the tech work required and financial prices, if any, to supply “Catalog Entry” and “Library Porting” to competing app shops for a interval of as much as 6 years. See MDL Dkt. No. 952 at 7. The proffer can also tackle tech work and financial prices for the distribution of third-party app shops by way of the Google Play Retailer.
MDL Dkt. No. 952 is Epic’s 16-page record of asks, and seven is the web page that may power Google to offer different app shops entry to your complete Google Play catalog of apps, ought to Epic get its manner. Take a peek:
Just under “Catalog Entry and Library Porting” is the opposite large ask Decide Donato appears to be contemplating: that Google would carry different third-party app shops inside its Google Play retailer for six years.
In response to the order, Epic will get an opportunity to query Google’s consultants and engineers concerning the accuracy of their estimates, and file a rebuttal, earlier than a last listening to on August 14th. In an evidentiary listening to yesterday, Decide Donato appeared extraordinarily skeptical of Google’s arguments towards Epic’s proposed cures, but additionally steered that a few of Epic’s asks have been “open-ended and too obscure.”
