Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On December 11th‚ a jury decided that Google has an illegal monopoly with its Google Play app store‚ handing Epic Games a win. But Epic wasn’t the only one fighting an antitrust case. All 50 state attorneys general settled a similar lawsuit in September‚ and we’ve just now learned what Google agreed to give up as a result: $700 million and a handful of minor concessions in the way that Google runs its store in the United States. The biggest change: Google will need to let developers steer consumers away from the Google Play Store for several years‚ if this settlement is approved. You can read the full 68-page settlement for yourself at the bottom of this story‚ but here’s the TL;DR about what it includes: $700‚000‚000 from Google in... Continue reading…