With a court ruling about the epic game lawsuit against Apple, you might think that the drama above Fortnite on the cellphone finally ended. Apple, however, was not the only one who was sued for fortnite creators last year because it also accused Google of anti-competitive behavior during the same match on the Google Play Store. The case is still not resolved, but Google rotates the table on the giant publishing game with violations of a contract claim that reveals a rather strange situation to the Google Play Store only.
While Epic Games focused on the Apple monopoly of the last App Store in the heart of his case against the iPhone maker, he put Google tactics more confidential in trying to make Fortnite leave the Google Play Store. Allegedly included bribing Samsung not to have a fortnite on the Galaxy Store and contemplate acquired the Epic Games itself. That, of course, never happened, and Google finally kicked the fortnite from her play store to use a third party payment system.
Unfortunately for Google, but fortunately for epic games, only removed from the Play Store do not delete applications from people’s devices. This has resulted in a rather strange situation where people who downloaded Fortnite from the Google Play Store can still use the game version that uses the payment system in the Epic Games external application. In other words, Epic is still profitable from the IAP made from the application installed from the Google Play Store even if the application is no longer available from the App Store.
According to a Google lawsuit, which is a violation of a contract since Epic Games does not pay 30% income cutting it in a contract owing Google. Technology giants claim that epic games are unfairly “enriched” with costs and find compensation how much are lost during that period. The legal debate might revolve around the obligation of Epic Games to pay the tax even after being removed from the Google Play Store.
Android makers always insist that their legal cases with epic games are very different from Apple. Unlike in iOS, free application developers to use whatever payment system they want as long as they don’t publish on the Google Play Store. If they choose to use the application market that is approved by Google, they must play with the rules and pay customary taxes.