I. COURTS
Aptoide wins court battle against Google
Aptoide, a Portuguese startup that owns an independent
application store for Android smartphones, won a legal action
against Google, claiming that the North American company was
identifying the application as being potentially malicious.
The decision came as a result of a legal action started after
Aptoide noticed that the Google Play Store had wrongly warned its
users, both at a national and international level, that the app
would pose a threat to their equipment and that it should be
immediately uninstalled, leaving the application automatically
unavailable without their consent. The company warned Google, but
without success, which is why it decided to proceed with an
injunction application before the District Court of
Évora.
