Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight

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Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight
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Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.

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No the point. Most users won't install anything not on the app store.

Yea, but how is that a monopoly? There is even a fullon android AppStore from Amazon

A monopoly is about market share and access to a market, "there is also ..." doesn't cut it in that discussion.

The real issue here is that Apple is still allowed to do it.

Apple's app store may be a problem, but saying "someone else is also doing something bad" doesn't mean what Google is doing isn't bad & illegal.

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A lot of people use fdroid

"a lot" means less than 0.01% of android users.

And stuff like fortnite would never make it to fdroid as well. People seem to jump through so many hoops to not admit the obvious monopoly in play.

I don't think Epic ask that Fortnite is on any store but their own. They want their fully capable launcher on the dominant store.

Ik I was referring to previous comment mate. They were suggesting there are alternatives like fdroid.

Ah yes, year of linux vibes.

I don't like the notion that something having majority market share makes it a monopoly. The definition of monopoly, at least, as understood by me implies control of supply, not just having a higher demand.

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