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The Epic Games Store Officially Launches on Mobile Devices (www.ign.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Honestly I know people here are against Epic, but Google Play is such garbage that I welcome the epic store on Android.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I agree, but that's what the courts decided. IANAL but I'm assuming it hinges on the pretense that Android is supposed to be an open ecosystem where partners and OEMs are given fair treatment, while iOS is a top-to-bottom "product" controlled by a single company that makes their own business arrangements.

In short, Apple deciding to block Epic from having their own app store, fine. Google bribing/coercing Android OEMs to prioritize the Play Store and not pre-install or facilitate the Epic Store, not fine.

I don't think the courts would have cared if Google locked down their own Pixel phones to block out Epic, but it's the act of throwing their weight around as the OS provider to their business partners (the OEMs) that they took issue with.