Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, December 12th,

2023 I'm Brian McCullough today.

Epic Games won its case against Google's App Store, but why was this case different

than the one they lost to Apple?

The sort of big changes to Apple TV, be real is still around and still being real, but

E3 is not.

It's officially over as a conference. Here's what you miss today in the world of

Tech.

As I said on various social platforms this morning, how can you not go with an epic

win headline if you're doing this story today? I't see how the jury in the epic versus

Google case has found that Google does have a monopoly in the Android app

distribution and in-app billing services markets.

Google plans to appeal, but quoting the verge.

After just a few hours of deliberation,

the jury unanimously answered yes to every question put before them

that Google has monopoly power in the

Android app distribution markets and in app billing services markets that Google

did anti-competitive things in those markets and that Epic was injured by that

behavior. They decided Google has an illegal tie between its Google Play App Store

and its Google Play Billing Payments Services too,

and that its Distribution Agreement, Project Hug, deals with game developers and deals with

OEMs, were all anti-competitive.

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