Google is opening the Android platform to rival app stores amid ongoing antitrust scrutiny of its app ecosystem. The change is meant to give competing marketplaces greater access to Android users.
Regulators in multiple jurisdictions have pressed Google over how apps are distributed and billed on Android. Allowing rival stores addresses part of that pressure by reducing exclusive reliance on Google’s own storefront.
The cited technology report linked the platform opening to antitrust pressure but did not specify which countries’ rules triggered the timing or what technical requirements rival stores must meet.
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