<story><title>Google agrees to pay $700M in antitrust settlement reached with states</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/google-android-play-store-apps-antitrust-settlement-e4e2f422baa846c66deac90c7866c5fd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amadeuspagel</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s shocking that it&amp;#x27;s illegal to make an OS that allows people to install apps from other sources after warning them, but not illegal to not allow that at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>This is the problem that arises when the legislature doesn&amp;#x27;t make laws specifically around things like app stores.&lt;p&gt;The courts take existing laws and regulations and try to make them fit, and different courts come up with different answers because the laws they&amp;#x27;re using never imagined this precise scenario.&lt;p&gt;Ideally we&amp;#x27;d have a functioning Congress that would debate these issues and write carefully thought-out laws to regulate app stores. Until then, we just get messes of seemingly contradictory rulings that seem to be decided more by chance than by any clear cohesive principle.&lt;p&gt;In other words -- blame the legislature, not the courts.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google agrees to pay $700M in antitrust settlement reached with states</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/google-android-play-store-apps-antitrust-settlement-e4e2f422baa846c66deac90c7866c5fd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amadeuspagel</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s shocking that it&amp;#x27;s illegal to make an OS that allows people to install apps from other sources after warning them, but not illegal to not allow that at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>YetAnotherNick</author><text>Law is so weird. Apple stopped watch sales today for using decades old technology[1]. And Google for this. Out of ALL the bad things they have done.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forbes.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;katiejennings&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;31&amp;#x2F;some-apple-watches-are-about-to-be-banned-in-the-us-what-happens-next&amp;#x2F;?sh=2fd1f20ad1cc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forbes.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;katiejennings&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;31&amp;#x2F;some-a...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>