March 4, 2026 -- Google will lower the lucrative fees imposed on its Android app store and offer a way for rival options to gain its stamp of approval, ending a legal battle that led to one of several rulings portraying its tactics as an illegal monopoly. The proposed changes filed with a federal court in San Francisco mark the latest twist in a case that began in August 2020 when video game maker Epic Games filed an antitrust case seeking to make it easier for alternative payment options to compete against Google's Play Store system, which charges 15% to 30% commissions on a wide variety of in-app transactions. Google's concessions come five months after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the company's attempt to overturn a federal judge's order requiring a far more extensive overhaul of the Play Store following a 2023 trial that culminated in a jury declaring the setup an illegal monopoly. Google is now threatening to decrease its baseline commissions...
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