Final ruling in Epic v. Google, ordering Google to effectively open up the Google Play app store to competition, is some awesome news.

Google will have to distribute rival third-party app stores within Google Play, and it must give rival third-party app stores access to the full catalog of Google Play apps, unless developers opt out individually.

It also forbids Google from requiring the use of Google Pay on apps shipped through their store, freeing devs to offer other payment APIs to go around the 30% fees from Google.

This is a separate judgement from the DOJ vs Google that is considering a breakup of Google, forcing it to sell Android, Chrome and some other units.