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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 (1 children)

But we're not talking about Play Store...

Epic is, in the law suite they just won.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So the issue is that they don't want to pay commission on in-app purchases after people download their app from the Google Play store?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I believe that is the crux of it. And apparently part of the trial exposed that some big players have special deals such that don't have to pay those in-app purchase commissions, or at least have a smaller commission. And that's what makes it an abuse of their market position.