After four weeks of detailed court testimony, the California jury found against the Google Play monopoly on all counts," Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said on X (formerly Twitter). Smartphone companies can install the Android app for free under the condition that the Play app store remains on the home page and that other Google offers are pre-installed. During the trial it emerged that Google worked aggressively in other ways to make sure that the Google Play app store was the only conduit for making payments to third party apps such as Fortnite and other games. A sizable chunk of app store revenue comes from video games and Epic Games has long sought to have payments for its mobile games, such as Fortnite, take place outside the Google or Apple app stores that take commissions as high as 30 percent. But the trial exposed that Google rakes in tens of billions of dollars of revenue through the app store.

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha December 12, 2023 04:55 UTC