The system is still working, just slowly. Conflicting rulings from lower courts in very similar cases will be appealed and get put before the Supreme Court, whose ruling will apply to everyone

If they even deign to hear it. Do the supremes even know what a smartphone is? I've never seen a more out of touch bunch of people with so much power.

Half the court are in their 50s, it isn’t 2016 anymore for better and worse.

John Roberts is Chief Justice.

That's my impression as well. Beyond messed up if true, Android as least allows sideloading.

Two different cases, 2 different juries (OK the Apple one was a bench trial but you get my point) and neither one is binding precedent over the other.

But can Epic appeal then against Apple?

I imagine Google will appeal, and the whole shebang will be decided by the Supreme Court, applying to everyone.

This is probably where it is going. And yeah, it may cause some type of regulation of OS-integrated app stores and payment systems.

Were I Google I'd be appealling on the grounds Apple got away with it.

Did Apple pay companies not to deploy their own app stores? Oh, right, they were restrictive about even an app that had the same functionality as an Apple-made app, let alone competing app stores. This might get interesting.

They tried to use the apple case to get this suit dismissed. The judge already declined to dismiss the Google case

Both sides started appeals in July, iirc.

No, the cases were very different. Mainly because Google had a whole bunch of emails and contracts with other companies that Apple just doesn’t make.

Came here to say something similar.