ResearchBuzz: FirehoseMint (India): Supreme Court admits Google, CCI plea against NCLAT order on Play Store abuse of dominance case . “The Supreme Court accepted appeals from Google, the Competition Commission of India (CCI), and Alliance Digital India Foundation (ADIF) against a National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) decision, according to a report by Bar and Bench.”
Ars Technica NewsGoogle loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store https://arstechni.ca/MvAn #googleplay #appstores #Google #google #legal #Tech
Steve Dustcircle 🌹#VPN apps are topping #UK #appstores right now – here’s why
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/vpn-apps-are-topping-uk-app-stores-right-now-heres-why
eicker.news ᳇ tech news#Governments are pushing for #ageverification laws to protect minors online. #Meta supports legislation placing the #responsibility on #appstores, while #Apple and #Google #oppose this, arguing it infringes on #privacy and burdens #developers. https://www.patentlyapple.com/2025/07/meta-vs-apple-google-on-child-age-verification-laws.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Kevin Karhan 
@machinesbleedtoo not only that, but @EUCommission actively #sabotaged any #domestic (#EU) competitiors with backfiring ideas, like demanding that #AppStores pay #VAT in the buyers' nation without having EU-wide infrastructure to make this even possible.
- Basically making an #AntiGAFAM - legislation only be complyable by the #GAFAMs unless one wants to blow all revenue for #bureaucracy and yeet the #SingleMarket!
Competitiors like #AndroidPit #AppCenter got killed by that.
https://appdevelopermagazine.com/important-announcement:-androidpit-app-center-to-close/
Whereas in #China there's still some competition, but #Huawei's #AppGallery demanding a 50% cut before taxes for #Games makes #Steam look like a saint!
Route Fifty: Louisiana becomes third state to pass app store accountability law. “Louisiana became the latest state to pass what it described as an ‘app store accountability’ law, joining Texas and Utah in instituting such legislation. Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill in late June mandating that app stores that operate in the state — including those run by Apple and Google — must identify […]
@gabrielesvelto @Mozilla @mozilla_support @fuchsiii yes, and #Mozilla deciding to fragment #FirefoxOS more by basically letting #MNO / #MVNO run the #AppStores instead of having a reference one made it worse than the chinese domestic market cuz at leadt there one can just get an agent to enshure one's apps are in all #Android AppStores there...
GNU/Matt 
I don't understand the excitement for #bazaar the new #flatpak frontend created for #bazzite and #UniversalBlue.
It doesn't seem to do anything better than #kdediscover and looks extremely out of place on #plasma.
I'm kind of confused
Hubu.de#news ⚡ Datenschutzbeauftragte will Deepseek aus Appstores entfernen: Die Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider will gegen den chinesischen KI-Chatbot Deepseek vorgehen. Solange das e... https://hubu.de/?p=286948 | #appstores #deepseek #hubu
OkunaIch bin dafür, dass alle #Apps und alle Angebote, die durch #Steuergelder bezahlt sind, auch außerhalb der #Appstores zur Verfügung stehen sollten oder müssen.
Es ist eigentlich niemandem erklärbar, warum so Applikationen wie die #ARD-#Mediathek oder andere wie die Deutsche #Bahn-App nicht anderweitig als über die Appstores zu beziehen sind.
Als mindeste Alternative wäre eine Webseite, die genau dieselben Funktionen anbietet.
Es ist eigentlich niemandem erklärbar, warum so Applikationen wie die #ARD-#Mediathek oder andere wie die Deutsche #Bahn-App nicht anderweitig als über die Appstores zu beziehen sind.
Als mindeste Alternative wäre eine Webseite, die genau dieselben Funktionen anbietet.