In addition to Epic Games currently suing Apple, the company will continue to fight the lawsuit against Google in the Android Play Store. related to. With the newly submitted documents, Epic may have an advantage over Google, as the company draws the court’s attention to questionable agreements that have been in place for years, based on the documents.
The purpose of the so-called Project Hug program that Google insures itself against competitors by trying to convince app developers in several ways with Play Store exclusivity
According to The Verge, Google has influenced developers with Project Hug to be published exclusively on the Play Store, and the company has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on secret contracts to exclude other distribution channels.
Judge Donato our in California ordered the Google App Store antitrust suits to be filed in unredacted form. You can now read Epic’s here: https://t.co/j2hFLn0azm
— Leah AntiTrustButVer1fy Nylen (@leah_nylen) August 19, 2021
Moreover, according to the documents, Google has infringed the competition rules and has also cooperated with Apple in certain areas. In addition, the Premier Device Program offered phone manufacturers conditions that convinced them to have only the Play Store pre-installed on their devices.
Google has not yet issued a statement about the newly submitted and published documents, but obviously the company’s lawyers are already working on the case, we will report on the developments to you.
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