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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are 'pretending to be Republicans'

The Trump administration is expected to be softer on antitrust cases, which as we know are one of Sweeney's major pursuits.

Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney had some biting words on Friday for tech executives who are fawning over US president-elect Donald Trump, accusing them of playing nice to push anti-competitive policy to the detriment of the rest of us. The short version is that Sweeney wants to sell games on iPhones and Android phones without using Apple and Google's official stores and payment processing systems—or paying a fee for the privilege—and has argued that the companies are unfairly monopolizing the mobile software market by making that very difficult to do. Last year, Sweeney vowed to "keep fighting on until there's an ultimate victory" over Apple and Google's "totally broken vision for the world."

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