Epic v. Google: everything we learned in Fortnite court
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“It’s a market fee, not a monopoly fee.”
“The service fee you see here is exactly the same fee that Epic pays in the Nintendo store, the Xbox store, the Steam store,” says Pomerantz. “All these stores charge a mega developer like Epic the same 30 percent fee.”
He also argues the Play Store and Android provide more value than the simple payment processing fees charged by PayPal or Stripe.
In the Epic v. Apple case, the judge agreed Apple deserved something for the platform — but not necessarily 30 percent. (Nobody can tell the jury that, though.)
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