Epic v. Google: everything we learned in Fortnite court
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“Google’s objectives in taking the actions that affect the way the ecosystem operates have the objective of maximizing Google’s value. They do not have the purpose of maximizing the total value of the platform to all parties,” he tells Epic lead attorney Gary Bornstein.
“Because there’s competition, Google can’t extract as much because there’s a smaller share,” he says, showing us a pair of pie charts: one where Google has a $35 slice of a $50 pie and one where Google has a $10 slice of a $100 one.
(The $100 pie is supposed to represent competition in Android; the small pie “impaired” competition.)
He also says Google’s comparison of Android to the old Symbian OS is flawed because phones from rival manufacturers used different versions. “Each had their own versions of Symbian and each was incompatible with the other.”
