By Tom Pritchard published August 1, 2025 Third-party app stores could come to Google Play, now that Google just lost a fresh appeal against an Epic Games antitrust suit.

In 2023, the jury verdict in the Epic Games vs Google case ruled that Google had an “illegal monopoly” with its practices over Android with the Play Store and its billing practices.

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‌Epic Games‌ first sued Google in 2020, right around the same time that it sued Apple. In 2023, a jury unanimously agreed that Google had abused its power by operating an app store monopoly ...

Epic Games has secured a major victory against Google, as the Ninth Circuit Court upheld a ruling deeming Google’s Android app store and billing practices an illegal monopoly.