Epic v. Google: everything we learned in Fortnite court
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“Do the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store compete on the price they charge to developers?”
“Yes, I believe we do,” says Apple’s Oliver.
He agrees that Apple and Google’s stores compete for “the highest quality apps,” as Google put it, and on “the safety and security of the user experience.“
Apple nominally charges game developers the same 30 percent as Google, but Oliver says “the vast majority of game developers are eligible for the small business program... they would be able to pay 15 percent.” It applies to developers that earn less than $1M in annual revenue — so we’re talking about the long tail, not game companies at the scale of Epic.
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