E pic’s lawsuit against Google resulted in a final ruling that would require Google to open up its Play Store to third-party app store competitors, but that no longer appears to

Alphabet Inc.’s Google won’t have to immediately revamp its Google Play store policies, after a federal judge in California temporarily paused his order that would have forced the technology giant to overhaul its app marketplace.

A federal judge in California has granted Google's request to temporarily pause his order directing the Alphabet unit to overhaul its Android app store Play by Nov. 1 to give consumers more choice over how they download software.

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A federal judge on Friday delayed an order requiring Google to open up its Android app store to more competition until an appeals court decides whether to block the shake-up because of legal questions surrounding a jury’s verdict that branded Google as an illegal monopolist.

Google has requested more time to implement changes mandated by a judge's ruling in its trial involving Epic Games. The company says the rush to introduce third-party app stores into Google Play raises safety and privacy risks for 100+ million US Android users.

Google has moved for an emergency stay on the Epic judgment, as the Court gave just three weeks to make sweeping changes to the Play Store.

Google went to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to ask for emergency stay of Epic rulling. Google first appealed directly to Judge Donato but is unwiling to wait until Friday to h