{"id":972283,"date":"2025-11-06T11:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972283"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:39:30","slug":"epic-vs-google-ends-fortnite-maker-and-google-settle-five-year-long-court-battle-with-lower-fees-and-opening-android-to-rival-app-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/06\/epic-vs-google-ends-fortnite-maker-and-google-settle-five-year-long-court-battle-with-lower-fees-and-opening-android-to-rival-app-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic vs Google ends: Fortnite-maker and Google settle five-year long court battle with lower fees, and opening Android to rival app stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google and Epic Games have settled their bitter antitrust dispute, striking a deal that will crack open Android&#8217;s app ecosystem with lower fees and easier access to rival app stores\u2014changes that will ripple across global markets through 2032. The settlement comes as a dramatic shift from the courtroom confrontation that saw Epic win a jury verdict in 2023 accusing Google of illegally monopolising app distribution on Android devices. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney praised the proposal as one that &#8220;genuinely doubles down on Android&#8217;s original vision as an open platform,&#8221; a stark contrast to his ongoing battles with Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Google cuts fees, lets developers bypass its payment system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google and Epic Games have settled their bitter antitrust dispute, striking a deal that will crack open Android&#8217;s app ecosystem with lower fees and easier access to rival app stores\u2014changes that will ripple across global markets through 2032. The settlement comes as a dramatic shift from the courtroom confrontation that saw Epic win a jury verdict in 2023 accusing Google of illegally monopolising app distribution on Android devices. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney praised the proposal as one that &#8220;genuinely doubles down on Android&#8217;s original vision as an open platform,&#8221; a stark contrast to his ongoing battles with Apple. Google cuts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}