Google Says Opening Up Its App Store Is Expensive And Too Much Work, Gets Told By Judge, 'We're Going To Tear The Barriers Down'
Google Says Opening Up Its App Store Is Expensive And Too Much Work, Gets Told By Judge, 'We're Going To Tear The Barriers Down'
Judge James Donato on Wednesday spoke about dismantling the monopoly of Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google's Android app store in the ongoing Epic v. Google case.
在進行Epic v. Google案件中，法官James Donato週三談到了如何拆除Alphabet Inc（納斯達克證券代碼：GOOG）（納斯達克證券代碼：GOOGL）Google Android應用商店的壟斷。
What Happened: Following a federal jury's unanimous ruling eight months ago that Google's Android store is an illegal monopoly in the Epic v. Google case, Judge Donato made his intentions clear during the final hearing on remedies, reported The Verge.
發生了什麼：八個月前，聯邦陪審團一致裁定Google的Android商店在史詩對谷歌案中是非法的壟斷地位，掌握處理結果的Donato法官在補救方案的最後聽證會上明確表態，據The Verge報道。
While Google argued that opening its store to rival stores would be too much work or cost too much, Donato has dismissed these claims. "We're going to tear the barriers down, it's just the way it's going to happen," he stated.
雖然Google主張將其商店開放給競爭對手商店將會有太多工作量或成本，但Donato駁斥了這些說法。他說:"我們將推翻障礙，這就是事情的發展方向"。
Adding, "The world that exists today is the product of monopolistic conduct. That world is changing." Donato will issue his final ruling in a little over two weeks.
他還補充說:"今日存在的世界是壟斷行爲的產物。這個世界正在改變。"Donato將在稍超兩週的時間內發表他的最終裁決。
While Epic won the jury trial last December, the judge has been deciding on how to rectify the damage caused by Google's monopoly.
儘管史詩公司贏得了去年12月的陪審團庭審，但法官一直在決定如何糾正谷歌壟斷造成的損害。
Epic has proposed that Google should be forced to allow rival stores to exist within its own Google Play Store and give them access to every Google Play app.
史詩公司提議強制谷歌允許競爭對手商店存在於自己的Google Play商店，並讓它們訪問每一個Google Play應用程序。
Both parties agreed that opening up the Play Store is feasible, but disagreed on the timeline, cost, and whether Google should be able to review every app in every rival store before allowing them into Google Play.
雙方都同意開放Play商店是可行的，但對時間表，費用以及谷歌是否應該審核競爭對手商店中每個應用程序的意見並不一致。
Donato plans to ban any discriminatory behavior by Google towards rival app stores, including human reviews.
Donato計劃禁止谷歌對競爭對手應用商店的任何歧視行爲，包括人工審核。
He also proposed the creation of a "technical compliance and monitoring committee" to oversee the technical details and report back to the court every 90 days.
他還提議成立一個技術合規和監測委員會來監督技術細節，並每90天向法院報告。
Why It Matters: In an interview, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeny compared his company's legal battles with Google and Apple.
爲什麼它很重要：在一次採訪中，史詩遊戲公司CEO Tim Sweeney將他公司與谷歌和蘋果的法律鬥爭進行了比較。
At the time he stated, "I would say Apple was ice and Google was fire," adding that Apple's "antitrust trickery" was contained within the company, while Google's practices were more outward.
當時他說:"我會說蘋果是冰，谷歌是火"，並補充說蘋果的"反壟斷技巧"只在公司內部，而谷歌的行爲更加外向。
Sweney had also earlier stated that the trial validated his suspicions regarding Google's behind-the-scenes practices. "It was really, really interesting to see that my understandings of what Google was doing behind the scenes were actually true."
Sweeney此前曾表示，該審判證實了他對谷歌幕後行爲的猜測。"看到谷歌幕後的行爲方式真的非常有趣。"
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