Google tenatively settles with US antitrust probe into Play Store dominance

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Google tenatively settles with US antitrust probe into Play Store dominance
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Attorneys general and consumers from 37 states alleged that Google held an unfair monopoly on Android devices..

, alleging the latter had made deals with other big games publisher to box out rival app stores. Sweeney is also, as usual, grumbling about other stores asking a cut of each transaction to pay for the running costs of those stores.

is set for November 6th, but Sweeney tweeted:"If Google is ending its payments monopoly without imposing a Google Tax on third party transactions, we'll settle and be Google's friend in their new era. But if the settlement merely pays off the other plaintiffs while leaving the Google Tax in place, we'll fight on. Consumers only benefit if antitrust enforcement not only opens up markets, but also restores price competition.

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