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'Fortnite' maker Epic Games is battling Google in court over app-store fees 2 years after largely losing a similar case against Apple (www.businessinsider.com)

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'Fortnite' maker Epic Games is battling Google in court over app-store fees 2 years after largely losing a similar case against Apple::Epic Games is taking aim at the commissions that Google charges on digital purchases made within a mobile app.

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[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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?

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