While Google’s Epic loss will require Android to open up to more than Play Store, Google said it can’t be a monopoly since Apple exists.

For three years, Google will have to let third-party Android app stores access the Google Play Store's catalog of apps "so that they may offer the Play Store apps to users," said the injunction issued by US District Judge James Donato of the Northern District of California.

Google Play Store, a judge ruled, upending the search giant’s dominance in the lucrative Android app market.A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday handed a big victory to Epic Games Inc. in its long-running antitrust challenge to the technology giant’s app store,