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Google app store faces lawsuit from 36 states and Washington
- Attorneys general for 36 states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit targeting Google Play and its cut of app revenues
- The complaint echoes similar arguments made against Apple, but it marks the fourth major antitrust suit filed against Google since October
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This time, attorneys general for 36 states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit targeting Google’s Play store, where consumers download apps designed for the Android software that powers most of the world’s smartphones.
The 144-page complaint filed late Wednesday in a Northern California federal court represents the fourth major antitrust filed against Google by government agencies across the US since last October.
The lawsuit also comes against a backdrop of proposed laws in Congress tailored to either break up or undermine the power amassed by Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. The four have built trillion-dollar empires fuelled by the immense popularity of services that people have become increasingly dependent upon.
Much of the latest lawsuit echoes similar allegations that mobile game maker Epic Games made against both Google and Apple, which runs a separate app store exclusively for iPhones, in cases brought last August.
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