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.

About 200 malicious mobile apps have been identified as targeting Android users in Nigeria, the US, Canada, the Philippines, India, Singapore, and other countries.

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,

In Epic Games’ lawsuit against Google, a federal jury had unanimously decided last year that the Google Play Store and the Google Play Billing service were an illegal monopoly. In his ruling on Monday, October 7, Judge James Donato outlined what Google has to do to fix the damage caused by its monopoly.

Alphabet Inc must lift restrictions that prevent developers from setting up rival marketplaces that compete with its Google Play Store, a judge ruled, upending the search giant’s dominance in the lucrative Android app market.

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.