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I feel like they're going to have a monumentally more difficult time on this one considering Android supports other playstores.
...and sideloading. That's a thing on Android, right? Can't Epic just make their own store for Android anyway?
they already have
And direct sideloading. Epic could offer the apk on their own site and process the payments directly themselves for free. It mostly seems they are complaining customers won't buy as much stuff if they can't use google pay, and they don't want to offer it because it's too expensive, which is inconvenient sure, but I don't see it being enough to sue and win.
I think the problem with side loading and other stores are the saftey warnings google shows discouraging others from installing them.
Maybe something will come out of that to make it less scary if they go through some process?