{"id":1200949,"date":"2023-11-08T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1200949"},"modified":"2023-11-08T13:00:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T18:00:35","slug":"epic-lays-out-googles-alleged-bribe-and-block-monopoly-strategy-in-trial-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1200949","title":{"rendered":"Epic lays out Google\u2019s alleged \u201cbribe and block\u201d monopoly strategy in trial opening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> How’s about we just forget about those plans for a competing Android app store? (credit: Getty Images | krisanapong detraphiphat<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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For years now, Google has stressed the “open” nature of the Android’s sideloading-enabled<\/a> mobile platform over Apple’s completely locked-down iOS App Store. But Epic has used the opening days of its jury trial against Google<\/a> to argue that this technical openness hasn’t prevented Google from creating an effective monopoly over Android app distribution through its Google Play Store.<\/p>\n

In its opening statement (as reported<\/a> by<\/a> multiple<\/a> sources<\/a> inside the San Francisco federal courtroom), Epic attorney Gary Bornstein pointed out that the Google Play Store is responsible for 90 percent of all Android app downloads, resulting in $12 billion in profit for Google. And Epic argues that Google has maintained that dominance through a “bribe and block” strategy that “pays actual and potential competitors not to compete\u2014literally gives them money and other things of value.”<\/p>\n

Epic’s opening arguments specifically called out League of Legends<\/em> maker Riot Games as one of the companies that Google paid to eliminate the possible launch of a competing Android app store. While Epic says Google was smart enough not to note this payment in written contractual language, a less formal system helped ensure Riot was one of many companies that would “sit this one out and let [Google] win.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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