Comment on 'Fortnite' maker Epic Games is battling Google in court over app-store fees 2 years after largely losing a similar case against Apple

NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• dynamojoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  …and sideloading. That’s a thing on Android, right? Can’t Epic just make their own store for Android anyway?

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  • Solarius@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    they already have

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• JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And direct sideloading. Epic could offer the apk on their own site and process the payments directly themselves for free. It mostly seems they are complaining customers won’t buy as much stuff if they can’t use google pay, which is inconvenient sure, but I don’t see it being enough to sue and win.

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  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think the problem with side loading and other stores are the saftey warnings google shows discouraging others from installing them.

    Maybe something will come out of that to make it less scary if they go through some process?

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