“I’m guessing the Vudu app uses its own billing so we’d be inconsistent if we pushed [DirecTV] to something different on policy grounds.”

“I fear that [YouTube] is trying to find reasons not to use Play’s in-app billing for its premium services [...] this is not about money or control, it puts us in a difficult position with our third-party ecosystem if we have a first-party app that doesn’t use Play billing.”

Epic’s attorney suggests YouTube didn’t migrate to Google Play Billing until after Epic’s Fortnite lawsuit. Google concedes it didn’t migrate until after its (post-lawsuit) policy change, which mandated Play Billing for apps thereafter.