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The Google/Epic Games app store showdown goes before Court of Appeals | The DeanBeat


We had a rare peek this week into the legal world of antitrust and its enforcement in the games industry.

Google agreed to pay consumers $700 million and make changes in response to a lawsuit by state attorneys general over Play Store practices. Bornstein disputed Google when it argued that the changes Donato ordered would results in a big harm for user privacy and security. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has called the 15 steps required to sideload Fortnite onto an Android phone “scare screens.”

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