Epic v. Google: everything we learned in Fortnite court
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Google’s attorney Michelle Park Chiu showed the court an email where Epic explicitly agreed it would “submit an updated build [of Fortnite] that fully complies with Google’s policies and restrictions,” one that would explicitly use Google’s payment platform and remove all other payments.
Obviously, that didn’t last. We’re here in court today because Epic then secretly shoved its own payment mechanism into the app.
But Chiu also found a way to tug on the heartstrings — by letting Koh explain how “betrayed” his Google team felt after pulling out all the stops to get that twice-rejected Fortnite app ready for Epic’s all-important in-game Travis Scott concert on April 23rd, 2020. He said they managed a two-month task in just under two weeks.
