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Today, Epic and Google agree to open up Android worldwide.

I'm Tom Merritt.

And I'm Sarah Lane. Let's start

with what you need to know with that big story. Peace in our time. Epic Games and Google have

agreed to settle their five-year-old antitrust case over the Google App Store. The settlement

includes many, if not most of the remedies that were ordered by Judge

James Donato in his ruling from October 24. It will prevent an appeal from taking place.

And here's what stays. Google will still have to allow third-party app stores, which it has

already done complying with, and in-app payment systems

on its version of Android without additional fees or unnecessary impediments.

Google will not use revenue sharing as a way to stop a company from making its own app store.

It will not enter into exclusivity agreements. It will not get OEMs and carriers to restrict pre-instillation or placement

of Google Play Store. And the three-member dispute panel with members approved by both Epic

and Google will still be created to resolve any disputes over the settlement.

Now, the settlement goes beyond the judge's ruling in a few ways.

This will apply worldwide. So the court is just in the U.S. Google would only have to do this in the U.S.

But Google's going to say, you know what, we're going to do this everywhere. It will last for

six and a half years at the least. They can go longer if they want, but this will go through 2032.

The judge had only required three for the initial order.

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