Today, I am sitting in the courtroom that may decide the fate of Android. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is here. Google Android boss Sameer Samat is here. Together, they’ll try to convince Judge James Donato that they’re no longer enemies – that Google’s illegal monopoly on Android app stores can be resolved with a mutual settlement instead of the consequences the judge had ordered. And I’ll be posting anything interesting I hear live in this Verge StoryStream.
Epic sued Google over five years ago in August 2020, and in December 2023 a jury unanimously handed it the win. An appeals court upheld that verdict, and the US Supreme Court didn’t step in t …
