Epic judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Judge James Donato just made it crystal-clear: Google will pay.Eight months after a federal jury unanimously decided that Google’s Android app store is an illegal monopoly in Epic v. Google, Donato held his final hearing on remedies today. While we don’t yet know what will happen, he repeatedly shut down any suggestion that Google shouldn’t have to open up its store to rival stores, or that it’d be too much work, or cost too much,