She downloaded an app from Google's store. Google is supposed to vet apps. Google may have even recommended that she download that app.
Google and Apple operate monopolistic app stores with predatory fees.
This lady did something foolish.
Redressing the former by removing responsibility for the latter doesn't make sense.
I'm all for fining Google over this, but the money shouldn't go to the victim.
Are you sure?
Didn't that coffee lady originally request just hospital expenses, and then her lawyer told the jury to award punitive damages equal to one day's worth of coffee sales? (Or was it one day's coffee profits?)
Seems rather fitting that Google might pay one day's worth of app profits, if punitive damages are applied to their 3-month delay.
"It was in the store" seem an unreasonably low bar for personal responsibility.
A financial guarantee seems the least I'd require for that, personally.
It was in the store seems a reasonably level bar for the app has been vetted to show it works for its intended purpose.
How is selling fake investment apps different to selling fake sneakers?
To pretend otherwise is insane. (Even by appealing to app store monopolies or fees, which are immaterial to due diligence responsibility here)
This wasn't a case of the lady giving $5M to Google for fake crypto.
It was more like Google selling her a phone, then her dialing one of the preset numbers on that phone and getting scammed.