On Tuesday 19 August, Google announced that it had made targeted changes to its app store, and more specifically to its “external offers programme” for developers who use its Play Store to distribute apps in the European Economic Area.
This change comes at a time when the US company is being forced by the EU to change some of its internal rules for its applications, as part of the obligations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) (see EUROPE B13378A8).
For many months, developers have...