Google Play Store Wriggles Way Out of Housing Third-Party App Stores in Android's Biggest Market

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The company doesn't have to allow third-party app stores through its Play Store; users can choose third-party billing options.

when the Competition Commission of India ruled that the company had to be more permissive to third-party app stores and payment methods on its platform. It also ruled that Google could no longer withhold a license for the Android OS based on whether a manufacturer included Google branded apps pre-installed on the device.Google has since appealed the decision and will receive some relief through relaxed enforcement of four of the ten directives.

Instead, users will still have to sideload an APK just like the olden days. This has been a practice on Android pretty much since its inception, and it’s rumored that it might be how both GoogleApple gets around a recent EU ruling requiring more “open markets” when it starts to go into effect next monthThe directive was meant to diversify Android’s offerings in a market where it is the dominant operating system by.

 

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