Google asks 9th Circuit for emergency stay, says Epic decision ‘dangerous’

The ruling, which Google appealed, will force Google to distribute third-party app stores within Google Play, no longer require Google Play Charges for apps distributed through Google Play, and more, many of those changes were ordered to take effect on on November 1 — just two weeks from today.

But echoing many of Google’s arguments during the district court case, which Judge Donato dismissed as insufficient, the company now says the order “threatens Google Play’s ability to provide a safe and reliable user experience.”

“This will not only hurt Google – it will have negative consequences for Android users, developers and device manufacturers who have built thriving businesses on Android,” wrote Google’s Lee-Anne Mulholland, VP of regulatory affairs, in a fact sheet distributed to reporters. .

The fact sheet is broken down into five different sections, and the section headings give you an idea of ​​Google’s objections:

To get a feel for a real Google installation in court, here’s how it starts:

At the request of one competitor, Epic Games, the District Court has ordered a sweeping redesign of Google Play that will expose the 100-plus million US users of Android devices to major security risks and force significant changes in Google’s contractual and business relationships with hundreds of thousands of partners. of Google. The court gave Google just three weeks to make many of these major changes—a Herculean task that creates an unacceptable risk of security and safety failures within the Android ecosystem.

You can read the entire fact sheet, and all of Google’s emergency moves, below.