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Here’s how much Google says it’d cost to fulfill Epic’s biggest demands
It’s a small number compared to Google’s Play profits.
Google says the reputational damage can’t be calculated — but that it’d take 12 to 18 months and upwards of $60 million to build and maintain the technical underpinnings. While $61.3 million may sound like a lot of money on the low end (or upwards of $137 million on the high end), we saw in court documents that Google makes billions of dollars in profit from the Google Play store every quarter — for 2021, the company’s own forecast suggested the store would produce nearly $12 billion of profit in a single year. Google also argues it should be entitled to collect a fee from third-party app stores if it were forced to go through with these changes.
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