The ruling, which Google is appealing, would force Google to distribute third-party app stores within Google Play, stop requiring Google Play Billing for apps distributed through Google Play, and more, with many of these changes effective March 1 . Should come into force in November – just over two weeks from today.
But echoing many of Google's arguments in the district court case, which Judge Donato rejected as inadequate, the company now argues that the order “endangers Google Play's ability to provide a safe and trustworthy user experience.”
“This would not only hurt Google – it would also have negative consequences for Android users, developers and device manufacturers who have built thriving businesses on Android,” wrote Lee-Anne Mulholland, vice president of regulatory affairs at Google, in a fact sheet distributed to journalists .
The fact sheet is divided into five different sections, and the section headings give you an idea of Google's objections:
To get a sense of what Google actually filed with the court, here's how it all starts:
At the request of a single competitor, Epic Games, the district court ordered sweeping redesigns of Play that will expose over 100 million U.S. users of Android devices to significant new security risks and force fundamental changes to Google's contractual and commercial relationships with hundreds of users Thousands of Google partners. The court gave Google just three weeks to make many of these sweeping changes – a Herculean task that created an unacceptable risk of security flaws in the Android ecosystem.
You can read Google's entire fact sheet and emergency request below.