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Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight::A jury has decided for Epic Games in the Epic v. Google trial, giving the Fortnite and Unreal Engine maker a historic win in its fight to change how app stores work.

  • nudny ekscentryk@szmer.infoEnglish
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    11 months ago

    it wants the court to tell Google that every app developer has total freedom to introduce its own app stores and its own billing systems on Android

    Don’t they? Am I missing something?

    • lortyEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      From the article:

      But Epic v. Google turned out to be a very different case. It hinged on secret revenue sharing deals between Google, smartphone makers, and big game developers, ones that Google execs internally believed were designed to keep rival app stores down. It showed that Google was running scared of Epic specifically. And it was all decided by a jury, unlike the Apple ruling.

      It’s not that it wasn’t technically possible, Google just made moves to discourage other stores directly with phone manufacturers and developers.