‘That is not acceptable’: Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier
‘That is not acceptable’: Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier
“这不可接受”：法官下令谷歌简化竞争对手应用商店的安装流程
One month after Epic Games and Google seemingly stopped fighting over the future of Android app distribution, they were back in a San Francisco courtroom today — where Judge James Donato just ordered Google to make it easier to install rival app stores on Android. 在 Epic Games 和谷歌似乎停止了关于 Android 应用分发未来的争斗一个月后，双方今天又回到了旧金山的法庭。法官詹姆斯·多纳托（James Donato）刚刚下令谷歌简化在 Android 上安装竞争对手应用商店的流程。
It’s been nearly three years since a jury unanimously decided that Google had an illegal monopoly over Android apps, and almost two years since Judge Donato decided the best way of undoing that monopoly would be to crack open Android app distribution. Donato ordered Google to carry rival Android app stores inside its own Google Play Store, and to provide rivals with complete access to Google’s full catalog of apps, for several years. 距离陪审团一致裁定谷歌在 Android 应用领域拥有非法垄断地位已过去近三年，而多纳托法官决定打破这种垄断的最佳方式是开放 Android 应用分发也已过去近两年。多纳托法官曾下令谷歌在其 Google Play 商店内引入竞争对手的 Android 应用商店，并在未来几年内向竞争对手提供谷歌完整应用目录的访问权限。
But Epic argued that Google is still making it too difficult to install rival app stores, showing the entire courtroom a live demo of how many steps it currently takes — and Judge Donato agreed that some of those steps were unnecessary “anticompetitive friction” and ordered Google to remove them. 但 Epic 辩称，谷歌目前仍在人为增加安装竞争对手应用商店的难度。Epic 向法庭展示了目前的安装流程需要多少步骤，多纳托法官认同其中一些步骤属于不必要的“反竞争摩擦”，并下令谷歌将其移除。
First, Epic’s lawyer Yonatan Even showed that if you search Google’s Play Store for the term “store for apps,” no third-party app stores appear, only physical stores. “Wait, why did Walmart come up?” Judge Donato asked. “That’s not good,” he exclaimed. 首先，Epic 的律师约纳坦·埃文（Yonatan Even）指出，如果你在 Google Play 商店搜索“store for apps”（应用商店）一词，不会出现任何第三方应用商店，只会显示实体店。多纳托法官问道：“等等，为什么会出现沃尔玛？”他惊呼道：“这可不行。”
“That is not acceptable, that has to be fixed. I want every possible variation that’s even only 70 percent properly phrased,” Donato ordered. Google’s counsel agreed to make it happen. “这不可接受，必须修正。我要求所有可能的变体，哪怕只有 70% 的表述是准确的也要显示出来，”多纳托下令道。谷歌的法律顾问同意执行。
Similarly, Judge Donato bristled when he saw that users have to press a “view” button before they can press an “install” button when choosing to install a third-party app store, and so that will change too. “You don’t get that when you’re looking at Apple Music,” he noted. “Make that install, not view,” Donato ordered, and Google agreed to do so. 同样，当多纳托法官看到用户在选择安装第三方应用商店时，必须先点击“查看”（view）按钮才能点击“安装”（install）按钮时，他感到非常不满，并要求对此进行更改。他指出：“你在查看 Apple Music 时可不会遇到这种情况。”多纳托下令道：“把它改成‘安装’，而不是‘查看’。”谷歌对此表示同意。
Later, Epic showed that when you search for “app store,” or even if you search directly for Aptoide, the first rival store to make it into the Google Play Store, Google doesn’t surface a normal list of apps — it shows you a new banner you have to click through to a dedicated third-party app store page. 随后，Epic 展示了当你搜索“app store”或者直接搜索 Aptoide（首个进入 Google Play 商店的竞争对手商店）时，谷歌并不会显示正常的应用列表，而是会弹出一个横幅，你必须点击它才能跳转到专门的第三方应用商店页面。
That’s not just a problem for brand-new app stores, argued Evan. Big, established companies like Amazon might decide not to launch app stores because they’d be losing the ability to appear in normal app store search results. 埃文辩称，这不仅仅是针对全新应用商店的问题。像亚马逊这样的大型成熟公司可能会因为无法出现在正常的应用商店搜索结果中，而决定不推出自己的应用商店。
Judge Donato ordered Google to fix that one, too, telling the company that it didn’t make any sense. “Why doesn’t it say ‘are you looking for music’ when you type in ‘music store’?” he asked. 多纳托法官也下令谷歌修复这一问题，并告诉该公司这种做法毫无意义。他问道：“当你输入‘音乐商店’时，为什么它不问你‘你是在找音乐吗’？”
Google’s attorney replied that Epic and Google had already agreed that app stores are a special category of apps that have advanced permissions. But Donato said the warning on the third-party app store page itself was sufficient to address that — there’s no need to ask a user whether they really want the thing they searched for, whether it’s a game store or a glass of water. 谷歌的律师回应称，Epic 和谷歌此前已达成一致，认为应用商店属于拥有高级权限的特殊类别应用。但多纳托表示，第三方应用商店页面本身的警告信息已足以解决该问题——没有必要询问用户是否真的想要他们搜索的东西，无论是游戏商店还是一杯水。
“We all know that when you go to a Google store or an Apple store and you type in the name of your app, you’re going to get one thing you were looking for and ten things you don’t want,” said the judge, explaining that he doesn’t think average users will be confused when they get what they’re asking for. “我们都知道，当你进入谷歌商店或苹果商店并输入应用名称时，你会得到一个你想要的结果，以及十个你不想要的结果，”法官说道。他解释称，他不认为普通用户在得到他们想要的东西时会感到困惑。
“Take off the ‘are you looking for’ screen, there’s no purpose for that. There’s a friction there that has no purpose whatsoever,” Donato said. “去掉那个‘你是在找……吗’的屏幕，它毫无意义。那是一种完全没有必要的摩擦，”多纳托说道。
The judge wants these changes fast. “Have it done by a week from today,” he told Google. “If there’s some problem with that, let me know.” 法官要求尽快完成这些更改。“从今天起一周内完成，”他告诉谷歌，“如果有任何问题，请告知我。”