Here’s how much Google says it’d cost to fulfill Epic’s biggest demands

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• onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Absolute jokers. These are their estimates for changes:

  12–16 months and $27.5 – $66.9 million to offer “catalog access” (letting third-party app stores access Google Play apps)

  AuroraStore accesses the catalog by reverse engineering their API. They’d have to open up their APIs (which are already secured) by documenting them and removing mandatory authentication. That’s not going to take them a year.

  12 months and $1.7 – $2.4 million to offer “library porting” (letting users transfer ownership of their Android apps to a third-party app store in bulk)

  No friggin’ way. If they opened up their APIs and allowed third party app stores to use them, Google will have minimal involvement in the transfer.

  • 12–16 months and $32.1 – $67.7 million to distribute third-party app stores within Google Play A redacted amount of money to review apps and app updates carried by third-party stores.

  Are they seriously quoting that much time for allowing a third party app store to put its app on Google Play? Completely bananas.

  The judge better get technical feedback from some Android experts unaffiliated with Google, their subsidiaries, or their competitors. Those quotes have minimal basis in reality and are just a stalling tactic - or Google engineers are extremely bad at their work. Do they type with a single finger while looking back and forth between the keyboard and screen?

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• Wakmrow@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Huh maybe they can hire some of the engineers they fired

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