As many know, Epic Games is one of the industry companies that arises to have conflicts with other corporate entities, one of them was the sound lawsuit against Apple and purchases of Fortnite . And now, a new lawsuit is confirmed, only now is addressed to Google **, with accusations that revolve around activities directed towards the monopoly.
In a motion presented on Friday before a federal court in the northern district of California, both Epic Games and Match Group accused Google to bribe the developers who had the media and capacity to create competitive android application stores. Something that is a kind of monitoring months ago.
The contestants point to agreements such as Project Hug . The initiative, later called Application and Games speed program, made Google spend millions of dollars to keep some of the most popular developers of Android in the Play Store . Reason why Epic Games Sounds up with this legal complaint.
It is said that some of these agreements were intended to prevent developers from launching competition application stores. According to the Law Sherman , infractions do not require that a plaintiff demonstrates how a certain behavior negatively affected the market, since it is generally accepted that such actions reduce rivalry.
This is what Google commented on some media regarding the accusation:
The program on which Epic and Match base their statements simply provides incentives for developers to provide benefits and early access to Google Play users when they launch new or updated content; It does not prevent developers from creating competing application stores, as they allege. In fact, the program is proof that Google Play fairly competes with numerous rivals by developers, who have several options of operating systems and application stores.
For now, the case has not further advanced.
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