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Google attacked competition to Play Store, Aptoide says in US antitrust complaint

By Clayton Vickers ( April 14, 2026, 22:08 GMT | Insight) -- Google has attacked competition to its Play Store app store, leveraging its dominant market share in the Android app distribution market to maintain additional monopolies, suppress rivals’ access to the market, and extract supracompetitive fees from app developers and users, Aptoide alleged in a US antitrust complaint.Google has attacked competition to its Play Store app store, leveraging its dominant market share in the Android app distribution market to maintain additional monopolies, suppress rivals’ access to the market, and extract supracompetitive fees from app developers and users, Aptoide alleged in a US antitrust complaint. ...

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