Google must make it easier to install alternative app stores, judge orders – Engadget

Google began distributing third-party app stores through its Play Store earlier this week, but not everyone is happy with the company’s approach. The Verge reports that Judge James Donato, the US District Court judge who oversaw the company’s antitrust case with Epic, believes Google has introduced unnecessary “anticompetitive friction” to the download process and has given the company a week to make changes.

The judge took issue with the way Google presents third-party app stores in search results and the current…