Google’s Android app store monopoly violates antitrust law, jury finds

Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney jumping for joy at news of the verdict.Epic Games While Epic’s antitrust arguments against Google had many similarities to those in the company’s earlier case against Apple, the verdicts could not have been more different. A federal jury took only a few hours of deliberation Monday afternoon to determine that Google had an illegal monopoly in the markets for Android app distribution and in-app billing services.

The jury unanimously answered “yes” to all 11 questions on the verdict form, indicating that Epic had proven those monopolies existed in every worldwide market except

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