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Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 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] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Google and Apple both banned Fortnite from their respective app stores and that's what caused Epic to sue both of them in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Well, Epic instigated them to ban the app so they could claim the ban as a tort under competition law.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's more that Epic added their own payment system to the app (and offered, IIRC, a roughly 30% decrease in Vbucks price for people who opted to use it instead), Google and Apple both responded by removing the app, and then Epic sued them both and even aired a special presentation in Fortnite. All in the same day. Epic intentionally did this.