Google
has
asked
the
9th
Circuit
Court
of
Appeals
to
halt
the
imminent
changes
required
from
Judge
James
Donato’s
recent
ruling
in
Epic
v.
Google.
The
company
already
asked
Judge
Donato
to
do
the
same,
but
it’s
not
waiting
till
Friday
to
find
out
if
the
judge
who
vowed
to
“tear
the
barriers
down”
will
let
Google
press
pause
on
his
ruling.
The
ruling,
which
Google
has
appealed,
would
force
Google
to
distribute
third-party
app
stores
within
Google
Play,
no
longer
require
Google
Play
Billing
for
apps
distributed
via
Google
Play,
and
more,
with
many
of
those
changes
ordered
to
begin
on
November
1st
—
just
over
two
weeks
from
today.
But
echoing
many
of
Google’s
arguments
during
the
district
court
case,
which
Judge
Donato
rejected
as
insufficient,
the
company
now
argues
that
the
order
“threatens
Google
Play’s
ability
to
provide
a
safe
and
trusted
user
experience.”
“This
wouldn’t
just
hurt
Google
–
this would
have
negative
consequences
for
Android
users,
developers
and
device
manufacturers
who
have
built
thriving businesses
on
Android,
writes
Google’s
Lee-Anne
Mulholland,
VP
of
regulatory
affairs,
in
a
fact
sheet
distributed
to
journalists.
The
fact
sheet
is
bulleted
into
five
different
sections,
and
the
section
headers
give
you
an
idea
of
Google’s
objections:
To
get
a
sense
of
Google’s
actual
filing
with
the
court,
here’s
how
it
begins:
At
the
request
of
a
single
competitor,
Epic
Games,
the
District
Court
ordered
extensive
redesigns
to
Play
that
will
expose
100-million-plus
U.S.
users
of
Android
devices
to
substantial
new
security
risks
and
force
fundamental
changes
to
Google’s
contractual
and
business
relationships
with
hundreds
of
thousands
of
Google
partners.
The
court
gave
Google
just
three
weeks
to
make
many
of
these
sweeping
changes—a
Herculean
task
creating
an
unacceptable
risk
of
safety
and
security
failures
within
the
Android
ecosystem.
You
can
read
the
whole
fact
sheet,
and
Google’s
whole
emergency
motion,
below.
Original author: Jay Peters
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