If Google does then so does Apple?

I don't fully understand this. If you want your app on a store front, you play by their rules or provide direct alternatives.

I just wish epic were actually the good guys in this. It's more like bane vs joker.

Sure, Google is problematic, but I don't see how Epic is helping here.

it wants the court to tell Google that every app developer has total freedom to introduce its own app stores and its own billing systems on Android

Don't they? Am I missing something?

About time too. Monopolies are the antithesis of what they claim to be

It’s a historic victory, particularly because Epic mostly lost its fight against Apple two years ago when Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers decided that fight had nothing to do with apps.

But Epic v. Google turned out to be a very different case. It hinged on secret revenue sharing deals between Google, smartphone makers, and big game developers, ones that Google execs internally believed were designed to keep rival app stores down. It showed that Google was running scared of Epic specifically. And it was all decided by a jury, unlike the Apple ruling.

Up next google banning device fingerprints for "security".

Fuck epic, hope this gets appealed.