What happened
美国一名法官裁定 Google Play 中第三方应用商店的下载方式存在"反竞争"问题，并给 Google 一周时间进行修复（Ars Technica）。
该裁定意味着第三方应用商店将在 Google Play 中变得更加显眼。原文未提供具体的整改要求细节、案件名称、法官姓名及裁定所依据的具体法律条款。
Analysis and impact
这一裁定延续了近年来针对移动应用商店分发垄断的监管趋势。Google Play 作为 Android 生态默认的应用分发渠道，其对第三方商店的展示方式直接影响了开发者和用户的替代选择空间。若第三方商店在 Play 内的可见度提升，将降低用户安装竞品商店的门槛，进而可能改变应用分发的流量格局——对依赖 Google Play 单一渠道抽成的开发者而言，这意味着更多绕过 30% 佣金（或相应比例）的路径。
从工程与产品角度看，整改重点在于"下载可见性"而非底层技术能力：Android 本身一直允许侧载和第三方商店，真正的壁垒是产品流程中设置的摩擦（警告弹窗、隐藏入口、信任提示等）。法官要求一周内完成整改，时间窗口极短，说明问题被认定为流程层面的调整而非架构级改造。不过原文未披露 Google 具体需要改动哪些环节，因此尚无法判断整改的实际工程范围。
对用户而言，更显眼的第三方商店意味着更多选择，但也伴随应用来源安全性与审核标准参差不齐的权衡，这一层面的风险原文同样未展开讨论。
Uncertainty and limits
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Original source text
Google began offering third-party app store downloads in the Play Store earlier this week, but US District Judge James Donato says the company isn't doing enough. After reviewing the process for accessing the first non-Google store, Donato ruled that Google has added unnecessary "anticompetitive friction," ordering the company to rectify the issues.
While Epic and Google are patching things up with a global partnership agreement, the two are still on opposite sides of the antitrust case in the US. Google lost the case in 2023, and the intervening years have been about determining how to implement remedies to address Google's anticompetitive behavior. One of the court's key elements is the requirement that Google include third-party app stores in the Play Store, giving users an easy way to get apps from non-Google sources. Aptoide Games became the first such app store recently.
However, Google worked hard to avoid this outcome, attempting to settle with Epic to keep third-party app stores out. When it was forced to admit the Aptoide store under the terms of the ruling, Google didn't exactly put up a banner welcoming third-party app stores. In fact, Judge Donato found in a Thursday hearing that Google's implementation was not good enough, according to The Verge.