Google won’t immediately need to make required changes from the Epic lawsuit order — such as letting third-party app stores on the Google Play Store for at least three years.
Google just netted a small but key victory in its Epic legal battle. Last week, the company asked Judge James Donato to press pause on his November 1st deadline to drastically alter its Android app store rules. Today he did just that, Epic and Google confirm to The Verge, granting Google a temporary administrative stay. That means Google may not have to change its Play Store practices for years, if at all, while it appeals the verdict.
You can read about the full list of changes that Judge Donato ordered in his permanent injunction embedded here. Originally, Judge Donato gave Google less than a month to begin cracking open its app store, and Google argued it should get the same 90 days that Apple got to make app store changes.
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