The ruling overturns Google's appeal, affirming the jury's verdict and dismissing its objections. Judge Margaret McKeown stated that evidence showed Google's anticompetitive behavior entrenched its dominance in the market. Google will need to implement substantial changes, including discontinuing its mandated billing system, allowing third-party payments, and distributing its app catalog on other systems. Google faces legal pressure as it may also need to permit third-party app stores within its ecosystem, all while navigating ongoing appeals and concerns over user safety and innovation.
The record was replete with evidence that Google's anticompetitive conduct entrenched its dominance, causing the Play Store to benefit from network effects, wrote McKeown. These remedies and their scope are supported by the record and the nature of the market, and we uphold them along with the liability verdict and the entire injunction.
This decision will significantly harm user safety, limit choice, and undermine the innovation that has always been central to the Android ecosystem,
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