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, now not require Google Play Billing for apps distributed through Google Play, and extra, with lots of these modifications ordered to start on November 1st — simply over two weeks from right now.

However echoing lots of Google’s arguments in the course of the district court docket case, which Decide Donato rejected as inadequate, the corporate now argues that the order “threatens Google Play’s capacity to offer a protected and trusted consumer expertise.”

“This wouldn’t simply damage Google – this would have adverse penalties for Android customers, builders and gadget 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 thought 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 Court docket ordered in depth redesigns to Play that can expose 100-million-plus U.S. customers of Android gadgets to substantial new safety dangers and drive elementary modifications 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 modifications—a Herculean activity creating an unacceptable threat of security and safety failures inside the Android ecosystem.

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