Google Play Developer Antitrust Litigation
&gt; A settlement has been reached with Google LLC, Google Ireland Limited, Google Commerce Limited, Google Asia Pacific Pte. Limited, and Google Payment Corp. (“Google”) in an antitrust class action lawsuit about the Google Play store. The lawsuit was brought by U.S. app developers. The lawsuit alleged that Google monopolized (or attempted to monopolize) alleged markets related to the distribution of Android OS apps and in-app products in violation of U.S. and California law. Google denies all allegations and the settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing by Google.<p>That last part has always irked me in settlements like this. Like how is it not an admission of wrongdoing if you finally say &quot;Ok, I&#x27;ll give you money for this problem to go away&quot;. You might say that you&#x27;re not admitting you&#x27;re at fault but the conclusion of you paying &quot;victims&quot; what they are &quot;owed&quot;, you are admitting you&#x27;re at fault.<p>Imagine someone stole something from you, that you value at 100 USD. Then when you try to convince them to give it back because they took it from you, they say &quot;Ok, I&#x27;ll give you 100 USD but that doesn&#x27;t mean I&#x27;m admitting I took it, I just don&#x27;t want to deal with it&quot;, wouldn&#x27;t you take it as that person actually admitting they took it, although they don&#x27;t want to confess to it?