Google listed the Aptoide Games marketplace on the US Google Play Store. This move follows a court ruling in the Epic Games antitrust lawsuit.
A judge ordered Google to open its Android platform to competing app stores. The decision ends Google’s decade-long practice of maintaining the sole primary app store on the platform.
Aptoide is the first third-party marketplace to appear directly within Google Play. This shift fundamentally alters the app distribution landscape for US developers and users.