Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Tuesday, October 8th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Crack, at least for the Google Play Store.

Two AI scientists have won the Nobel Prize for Physics,

question mark exclamation point.

Samsung is in a similar boat to Intel just not quite as severely

and an unfortunate reminder that government

mandated backdoors are always bad doors. Here's what you missed today in the world of

tech. Will we look back on this as the beginning of whatever is going to happen to Google in the final ruling of EPIC v Google?

A US judge has ordered Google to open the Play Store to rivals starting November 1st for three years.

Also they have to distribute third party stores within play, allow access to everything in the play store, to third-party stores, and more.

Quoting the verge.

These were EPIC's biggest asks, and they might change the Android App Marketplace forever if they aren't

immediately paused or blocked on appeal. And they're not all that epic has won

today starting November 1st, 2024 and ending November 1st, 2027,

Google must also stop requiring Google Play billing for apps distributed on the Google

Play Store.

The jury found that Google had illegally tied its payment system to its app store.

Let Android developers tell users about other ways to pay from within the Play Store.

Let Android developers link to ways to download their apps outside of the Play Store, let Android developers set their own prices

for apps irrespective of Play billing.

Google also can't share app revenue quote with any person or entity that distributes Android apps or plans to

launch an app store or app platform offer developers money or perks to

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