Judge orders Google to calculate the costs of Epic’s biggest Play Store demand

However Choose Donato is certainly contemplating them. He’s ordered Google to calculate the prices of complying with these calls for by June twenty fourth, one month from at present:

Google will file by June 24, 2024, a proffer stating intimately the tech work required and financial prices, if any, to offer “Catalog Entry” and “Library Porting” to competing app shops for a interval of as much as 6 years. See MDL Dkt. No. 952 at 7. The proffer may tackle tech work and financial prices for the distribution of third-party app shops via the Google Play Retailer. 

MDL Dkt. No. 952 is Epic’s 16-page record of asks, and seven is the web page that will power Google to provide different app shops entry to all the Google Play catalog of apps, ought to Epic get its means. Take a peek:

Slightly below “Catalog Entry and Library Porting” is the opposite large ask Choose Donato appears to be contemplating: that Google would carry different third-party app shops inside its Google Play retailer for six years.

In keeping with the order, Epic will get an opportunity to query Google’s consultants and engineers in regards to the accuracy of their estimates, and file a rebuttal, earlier than a ultimate listening to on August 14th. In an evidentiary listening to yesterday, Choose Donato appeared extraordinarily skeptical of Google’s arguments towards Epic’s proposed cures, but in addition recommended that a few of Epic’s asks have been “open-ended and too obscure.”