Newly released court documents in the legal dispute between Google and Epic Games prove that Google wanted to buy the game concerts so that popular apps like Fortnite also appear in the Google App Store. The dispute could have extensive effects on the entire game market.
Google, Apple and Epic Games are in the legal dispute after Apple as well as Google threw the Fortnite's Fortnite's app from its own mobile stores. Fortnite had a new payment system integrated at the time, which does not match the guidelines of the stores. In a newly released court document (via the Verge) is now the speech that Google Epic Games wanted to buy "or completely" to stop the financial "contamination":
"For example, Google has gone so far to share its own monopoly profits with business partners to ensure that the competition is locked out; Google has also launched several projects in order to eradicate the financial, contamination ', which they have perceived by Epic and others and who would offer the consumers and developers competing alternatives - and Google has even thought about Epic Games Share or buy completely. "(Source: released court documents)
In the court document, for the time being, nothing was possible for a possible purchase of EPIC by Google, but a paragraph was changed and supplemented accordingly. As the CEO of Epic Games confirmed on Twitter , Epic recently did not know anything about Google intended to buy the Group:
Google had offered Epic Games a special deal for Fortnite still appearing in the Google Play Store - Epic Games had rejected them. How to continue noticed in the document, Google feels the ability to be an app available on Android phone, but not appear in the Google Play Store, "Open underground".
The dispute between Epic Games and Google as well as Apple should have more effects, rather than just affecting the availability of Fortnite on cell phones: The outcome of the dispute could be App Stores as well as stores like Steam or the PS Store largely.
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