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Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight (www.theverge.com)

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Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.

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[-] SCB@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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.

From the article. It appears they had receipts that Epic was specifically and intentionally harmed here

[-] poopkins@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Apple has such deals. The difference is that they weren't caught.

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

The difference is that Apple is so vertically integrated, they can say that the existence of Android as an option negates any monopoly they might have on apps. Yes it's stupid.

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