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Google's Epic legal defeat threatens $200 billion app store industry

Google's Epic legal defeat threatens $200 billion app store industry

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Google’s legal defeat at the hands of Fortnite maker Epic Games Inc. threatens to roil an app store duopoly with Apple Inc. that generates close to $200 billion a year and dictates how billions of consumers use mobile devices. The loss—handed down by a San Francisco jury on Monday—is a blow to the two companies’ business model in apps, where they charge commissions of as much as 30% to software developers who typically h…
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