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Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight (www.theverge.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I read that but they don't expand at all on how they're doing that. I can buy, download and install games from EGS right now on my Android phone...

I can also buy things from Amazon or any other online store from my browser without Google Play.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They obviously aren't forcing everyone to use Google billing, but it seems like an antitrust case gains a lot more ground if the accused pays money to quite a bit of people to prevent them from using competitors. That's what's getting Google here, apparently, not real forcing.