The long court fight inbetween Epic Games and Google Play is lastly over, and Google came out evenworse for wear. The jury decision comes 3 years after Epic submitted a fit implicating Google of operating an prohibited monopoly with the Google Play shop on mobile gadgets and, particularly, Google Play Billing (thanks, The Verge).
The jury addressed yes to each accusation, specifying Google has monopoly power in Android app circulation and in-app billing and that its position and anticompetitive actions damaged Epic Games. Epic wasn’t the just one damaged either. During the trial, proof emerged of trick earnings sharing offers inbetween Google and big corporations such as Netflix and Spotify, where Google didn’t enforce Play Billing terms on specific entities – the verysame terms every other publisher had to abide by.
“We strategy to obstacle the decision,” Google VP of federalgovernment affairs and public policy stated in a statemen