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Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. Since 2015, Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney had questioned the need for digital storefronts like Valve's Steam, Apple's App Store for iOS devices, and Google Play, to take a 30% revenue sharing cut, and argued that when accounting for current rates of content distribution and other factors needed, a revenue cut of 8% should be sufficient to ...
Though Apple won a similar case against Epic in 2021, that ruling was made by a single judge. The nature of the Google suit — where a jury sided unanimously with Epic — let actual consumers ...
Then, wrapping up a pre-DMA case in which Spotify was the complainant, the Commission on Monday hit Apple with a $2 billion fine for stopping streaming-app developers from telling their iOS users ...
For its part, Epic Games was ordered to pay Apple's 30% fee on the roughly $12 million in revenue it earned from "Fortnite" between August 2020 and October 2020 when the game maker circumvented ...
Epic Games v. Google is a lawsuit brought by Epic Games against Google in August 2020 in the Northern District of California. [1] Filed concurrently with Epic Games v. Apple, Epic had challenged Google's monopolistic practices on its Google Play Store on Android devices. A jury trial was held in November and December 2023, after which the jury ...
Documents unveiled in the Epic Games v. Apple case in 2021 revealed that Epic Games had approached Sony in the months prior to E3 2018 in June to encourage them to support cross-platform play for Fortnite Battle Royale, with Epic proposing a solution that would make it appear as a win-win solution for both companies when they announced it at E3 ...
The case is Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 20-05640. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
[1] [2] The lawsuit contrasts the practices of Apple with those of Microsoft in United States v. Microsoft Corp., and alleges that Apple is engaging in similar tactics and committing even more egregious violations. [3] This lawsuit comes in the wake of Epic Games v. Apple and the enforcement of the Digital Markets Act in the European Union. [4]