Google asks ninth Circuit for emergency keep, says Epic ruling ‘is harmful’

The ruling, which Google has appealed, would drive Google to distribute third-party app shops inside Google Play, not require Google Play Billing for apps distributed through Google Play, and extra, with a lot of these adjustments ordered to start on November 1st — simply over two weeks from at present.

However echoing a lot of Google’s arguments through the district court docket case, which Choose Donato rejected as inadequate, the corporate now argues that the order “threatens Google Play’s capability to supply a secure and trusted person expertise.”

“This wouldn’t simply damage Google – this would have adverse penalties for Android customers, builders and system producers who’ve constructed thriving companies on Android, writes Google’s Lee-Anne Mulholland, VP of regulatory affairs, in a reality sheet distributed to journalists.

The very fact sheet is bulleted into 5 totally different sections, and the part headers offer you an concept of Google’s objections:

To get a way of Google’s precise submitting with the court docket, right here’s the way it begins:

On the request of a single competitor, Epic Video games, the District Courtroom ordered intensive redesigns to Play that may expose 100-million-plus U.S. customers of Android units to substantial new safety dangers and drive elementary adjustments to Google’s contractual and enterprise relationships with a whole bunch of hundreds of Google companions. The court docket gave Google simply three weeks to make many of those sweeping adjustments—a Herculean job creating an unacceptable danger of security and safety failures inside the Android ecosystem.

You possibly can learn the entire reality sheet, and Google’s complete emergency movement, under.