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Forget about Epic’s moral high-ground. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and Google are looking to settle the Google Play app store antitrust lawsuit, in new partnership deal that sees the “Fortnite” maker pay Google $800 million.
Still from Epic Games’s parody of Apple’s “1984” ad. Epic used this as the start of its campaign against both iOS and Android, aiming to portray itself as the champion of the oppressed, until it was able to reach a beneficial deal with Google.
Right from the start of its legal battles with Apple, Epic Games has claimed to be doing it to help developers. While it mostly lost that case against Apple, it won the same one against Google and officially is still fighting for a settlement to help all developers — or claimed to be.
On Thursday, during the case, the court has revealed that Epic Games and Google have arranged a new deal between them. According to The Verge, Epic Games will pay Google for what the court described as multi-year “joint product development, joint commitment, joint partnerships.”
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