News about the Terms of Play Store Settlement between US States and Google Revealed -The Terms of Play Store Settlement Between Google and US States Revealed -

HTML0 Google will provide $700 million in exchange for a number of Play Store changes.

The details of the antitrust agreement among U.S. states and Google have been revealed on Monday 18 December. It includes the creation of a massive account to assist customers, and payouts to states in addition to Play Store changes to increase the options available to consumers and app developers.

There are those who believe the changes proposed and the penalties do not suffice. The latest article by The Verge describes the Google changes to its app for store in terms of "tiny" and some concessions made by Google are described as "exceedingly small."

The Settlement

Reuters states that the agreement worth $700 million includes 600 million that will go into an investment fund to help the poor and consumers. The other $70 million goes to a trust fund which can be used by states. The suit was brought by California, North Carolina, New York, Tennessee and Utah and the 50 states, and those within the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico along with Puerto Rico, as well as Puerto Rico, as well as the Virgin Islands are involved in the settlement.

As per The Associated Press, the settlement is applicable to up to the 102 million U.S. consumers who purchased Play Store in-app purchases from August 16th. 16th of August 2016 to September. 30th, 2023.

Google says it's going to make the process of users being capable of downloading apps directly from the developer, as well as enhance the way that apps and game creators can provide diverse payment options to users that want to buy In-App purchases, Reuters reports.

Google has released an announcement on the settlement that was agreed to by Google's Vice President for Government Affairs & Public Policy Wilson White. In regards to when modifications are likely to take effect, the announcement ends with "These modifications will come into force after the Court has formally approved the settlement."

The deal was signed in September, but per Reuters the agreement was not disclosed because of the legal battle between Google and Epic Games.

CNN adds that, while the US was planning to get associated with Epic Games in litigating the dispute against Google however, the US agreed to negotiate a settlement with Google before resigning out in the tribunal. Epic continues to move forward in its determination to impose more penalties on Google.

Epic Games released a statement about the settlement by Epic's Vice President of Public Policy Corie Wright, calling Google's User Choice Billing system "deceptively-labeled" and arguing that "the States' settlement does not address the core of Google's unlawful and anticompetitive behavior. As the next step in the lawsuit Epic will be seeking significant resolutions to open up the Android ecosystem to ensure that developers and users gain the benefits of competition that U.S. antitrust laws were designed to encourage."

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