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I find that a silly demand. What's the point of a third party app store if it depends on play store to install apps? Host the apps yourself
It blows my mind how differently the courts are responding to Epic vs. Apple and Epic vs. Google.
Ironically Google's biggest argument against this is that it's privacy invading because said 3rd party app store will have to know what you have installed on your device.
That makes no sense.
There is nothing about downloading an APK file which necessitates a scan for conflicting apps uploading that data to Mao directly.
Also, fuck off Tim Swiney, you greasy pig fucker, go make out with Steve Huffman and snort disappointment off each others limp dicks.
I think they're saying that the 3rd party store would need to know if it can launch the app or if it needs to redirect to the Play Store for installation.
I'm just the messenger here, reead Google's own words if you like: https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/epics-proposed-remedies-are-bad-for-everyone-but-epic/
They clearly don't care too much about that privacy leak or it would have taken them less than 13 years to fix it in the first place (yes really).
Bruh
Dude
It's that you don't have to keep the play store app on your phone if you want to minimize google's presence on it. Maybe this way you also don't need to accept the ToS to be able to download those apps, but not sure about that one.
But you do need to have play store installed if the epic app store needs it to function