{"id":282924,"date":"2025-10-07T01:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T01:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/282924\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T01:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T01:38:10","slug":"the-supreme-court-didnt-save-google-from-epic-and-now-the-clock-is-ticking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/282924\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court didn\u2019t save Google from Epic, and now the clock is ticking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Now, Google has just over two weeks once again \u2014 because the US Supreme Court has decided not to save Google ahead of its Supreme Court appeal. Today, the Court denied the company\u2019s request for a partial stay, meaning the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/717440\/google-epic-open-play-store-emergency-stay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">permanent injunction is still in effect<\/a>, meaning Google must do the following things this month or be in violation:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Epic Games says the deadline for Google to comply is now October 22nd, 2025. \u201cStarting October 22, developers will be legally entitled to steer US Google Play users to out-of-app payments without fees, scare screens, and friction &#8211; same as Apple App Store users in the US!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TimSweeneyEpic\/status\/1975309212336238829\" rel=\"nofollow\">writes Epic CEO Tim Sweeney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google wouldn\u2019t explicitly tell The Verge if the company now plans to remove the requirement for Google Play Billing, allow other payment methods, and allow developers to link outside the Play Store to app downloads, among other things, at the same time it\u2019s still trying to appeal the case to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">But spokesperson Dan Jackson tells The Verge that the company will comply with its legal obligations, and passed along the following statement:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cAndroid provides more choice for users and developers than any mobile OS, and the changes ordered by the US District Court will jeopardize users\u2019 ability to safely download apps. While we\u2019re disappointed the order isn\u2019t stayed, we will continue our appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Epic did not immediately answer our questions about whether it\u2019s now working with Google on the court-mandated Joint Technical Committee to figure out how to bring Google Play apps to rival app stores without jeopardizing that safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google has said it will fully appeal to the Supreme Court for certiorari by October 27th, 2025 \u2014 but that would be after the deadline. The district court judge who originally issued the injunction, Judge James Donato, previously asked Google and Epic to explain how they\u2019ll comply with it in his courtroom on October 30th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">It\u2019s still possible that the Supreme Court might take up the case after Google\u2019s deadline has passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now, Google has just over two weeks once again \u2014 because the US Supreme Court has decided not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":282925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3227,9470,64,393,2722,3228,50,153,242,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-282924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-antitrust","9":"tag-apps","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-gaming","12":"tag-google","13":"tag-law","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-policy","16":"tag-tech","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}