Unsealed Documents Show That Google Used Financial Incentive Agreements to Control App Developers and OEMs

[Peter_Brosdahl]

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Newly unsealed documents have shown that Google used financial incentive agreements titled “Project Hug” and the “Premier Device Program” to control app developers and OEMs. Google had attempted to keep this information confidential in the current lawsuit with Epic Games, but a judge likened its request to a fox guarding the henhouse. Epic Games has filed a complaint based on the documents.

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“Google’s documents show that it pushes OEMs into making Google Play the exclusive app store on the OEMs’ devices through a series of coercive carrots and sticks, including by offering significant financial incentives to those that do so, and withholding...

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[Brian_B]

shocked.

 

[Grimlakin]

"Don't be evil" I am thinking more and more that needs a revamp.