US judge slams Google's $700M Play Store settlement as bad deal for consumers: ‘Matter of basic math'

A federal judge joined critics in questioning Google’s controversial $700 million settlement with all 50 US states over anticompetitive Android app store practices – pointing out it would only provide small cash payouts to consumers and could protect the company from future lawsuits.US District Judge James Donato described the Google deal, which would give as little as $2 per eligible user covered in the suit and also included a set of time-limited changes to its app store practices, as “a bag of not great” ...