Google petitions appeals court to overturn Epic Games' antitrust victory

Google has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn a lower court ruling on Epic Games' antitrust lawsuit that would have forced Google to allow third-party app stores and payment solutions to run through its app store, the Play Store.
Epic sued Apple and Google respectively in August 2020, alleging that they unfairly restricted apps in their app stores to their payment system (taking a 30% commission on all purchases) and blocked apps from using external systems.
The lower court's ruling will open up Google's app store and apps to other payment systems, including those that support encryption.
However, in a 110-page filing with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on November 27, Google argued that the California federal judge's ruling "will directly undermine Google's efforts to compete with Apple and iPhone".