Epic v. Google: everything we learned in Fortnite court
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Catherine Tucker, an economist and MIT professor of management and marketing (and chair of the MIT Sloan PhD program, according to her bio), got any conflicts of interest out of the way early: her research group was last funded by Google 11 years ago, and she’s being paid $1,400 an hour plus a percentage of billings from her staff.
Her conclusions are:
1) In offering a product that facilitates interactions between developers and app users, Google competes with Apple and others
2) The geographic market is the United States
3) Google does not have monopoly power
Those are some major ways to say Epic’s economists are wrong, and she doesn’t stop there: she says Epic turned “a single really easy to understand market into lots of little things... it allows them to carve off things, but in a way which doesn’t make sense.”
