Following Epic loss, Google has started hosting rival app stores in the Play Store

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Following a legal loss to Epic, Google has begun hosting rival app stores within the Play Store. Aptoide has become the first competing app store to be distributed inside Google Play in the US under a judge's order. This move allows Aptoide to bring its games store back to the platform after more than a decade, as court-ordered changes are now opening the Android ecosystem to competing app stores to increase market competition.