Sean Hollister

“A billion people have done it after getting notified of the potential risks,” says Pomerantz about sideloading apps. “That’s because Android users have a real choice.”

Also: “Security is really important to competition — we need to protect users because it’s a critical point of competition between Apple and Android,” he says.

“All the AFA did was set up some basic standards so Android phones have things in common — so Android developers could just build one version of the app, saving time and money, so it could run on a Motorola phone or a Nokia phone or an LG phone or any other phone.”

Epic will likely argue that these agreements were a kingmaker for Google’s app store.

“When they show these charts that show all these downloads from Play and not from the Galaxy Store, that’s what the Samsung phone users are choosing. They’re touching Play. Nothing’s keeping them from touching the Galaxy Store; it’s just what works for them,” argues Google.

That’s a shot at the heart of Epic’s case, which is that Google is preventing competition in Android app stores, not mobile phones or app stores in general.

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Bornstein also says the evidence will show there are “a lot of other ways” to protect against malicious apps than Google’s current practices. (Google will argue that Epic is demanding it remove the security protections that keep you safe.)

(Judge Donato told Epic it was at its time limit, and Epic wrapped up quickly.)

“All we know is whatever is in the destroyed chats, as bad as the documents are, is worse. Or at least it was worse, before they were destroyed,” Epic attorney Gary Bornstein told the jury.

You see, Epic planned the whole legal trap for Google, calling it Project Liberty, where it tried to bypass Google’s (and Apple’s) fees with its own payment system buried in the code.

Epic is admitting this but says the code isn’t as scary as Google will claim: “You will not see any evidence that anyone was harmed by this or even could have been harmed by this.”

“Some of them told Google they were going to compete against the Play store, and Google paid them not to do so.”

Bornstein admits “Google was too clever” to actually draw up contracts forcing devs not to compete with the Play Store but says Riot Games agreed not to compete.

“We have previously said that we don’t make money from [Android Market, the previous name for Google Play]. We are now lying,” the email snippet read.

Back in the day, Google said “we do not take a percentage.” Now, apps make Google $12 billion a year with a 70 percent profit margin, says Epic.

“Fortnite was the biggest game in the world, Google knew it was not an unknown app,” says Bornstein. “Google called it unknown so it could put up warnings just like those.”