Regarding that “secret deal” part, an update from Sean Hollister explains it:

“Why have you jettisoned the very heart of the injunction that you argued so forcefully for?”

Judge Donato says he just doesn’t get it.

Here’s Epic’s lead attorney Gary Bornstein to answer:

“We love those remedies, period, full stop. We like them, we asked for them, we like them the way we asked for them. Now we have another option that’s on the table that’s the result of a negotiation with Google. We got something through this negotiation that was not on the table before.”

“The only reason Epic is here is because Epic believes this set of remedies in totality will provide longer-term sustainable competition,” says Bornstein. He says holding out for something like this is “the reason Epic didn’t take payoffs back in the day” from Google’s Project Hug and similar.

And indeed, considering Google opening up the store globally isn’t a deal offered only to Epic, this is consistent with Sweeney previously saying they don’t want that kind of deal.