{"id":2124149,"date":"2023-12-13T15:51:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T20:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-fail-big-tech-titan-handed-brutal-court-loss-over-monopoly-allegations\/"},"modified":"2023-12-13T15:57:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T20:57:39","slug":"google-fail-big-tech-titan-handed-brutal-court-loss-over-monopoly-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-fail-big-tech-titan-handed-brutal-court-loss-over-monopoly-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Google suffers major court defeat in monopoly case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgoogle-fail-big-tech-titan-handed-brutal-court-loss-over-monopoly-allegations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2124149&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>&#8220;Winner, winner, chicken dinner.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Taking a cue from its insanely popular &#8220;Fortnite&#8221; video game, Epic\u200b Games just returned from the brink of catastrophe, took\u200d on one of the final bosses\u2064 of Big Tech, \u2063and \u2062won \u2014 for now.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone \u2062remotely interested in mobile gaming \u200chas likely heard about \u200dEpic&#8217;s crusade\u2064 against the two biggest smartphone storefronts: the Google Play Store and the Apple \u2064App Store.<\/p>\n<p>In short: Epic alleged that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-google-will-start-deleting-inactive-accounts-december-need-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a> and Apple were running illegal \u2062monopolies via their respective app \u200cstores, killing any prospective competition that may crop\u200c up.<\/p>\n<p>Epic was also fuming that the \u200bcompanies took\u200b such massive cuts\u2062 of its earnings through those app stores \u2014 a sizable loss of revenue \u2062given the\u200c popularity of &#8220;Fortnite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Epic lost its first battle against Apple, as documented by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/9\/10\/22667769\/apple-epic-lost-lawsuit-verdict-ruling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Verge<\/a>, \u2062roughly \u2062two years \u2062ago. (Apple\u200b lost that case \u2062too, but not \u2062nearly as\u2064 badly as Epic.)<\/p>\n<p>Fast\u200d forward \u2064to 2023, and many a legal pundit expected a similar \u2064outcome in Epic&#8217;s challenge against Google.<\/p>\n<p>But as in any great battle royale, the \u200bbest victories\u2063 are the ones you snatch from \u200cthe jaws of defeat \u2014 and that&#8217;s\u2063 exactly what appears to have happened here.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Do you think Google is operating an illegal monopoly?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Yes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>No<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-disclaimer\">\n<p>    \u200d  \u200c Completing this poll entitles you to The\u200b Western Journal\u2063 news updates free of charge via email. You may opt out at \u2062anytime. You also agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/terms-service\/\">Terms of Use<\/a>.\n  <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to a Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23994174\/epic-google-trial-jury-verdict-monopoly-google-play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from The Verge, a jury has found that\u200b &#8220;Google\u2064 turned its\u2062 Google Play app store\u2064 and Google Play \u200bBilling service into an illegal monopoly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One analyst, Paul\u2062 Gallant, told <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/video\/google-epic-games-fallout-unexpected-173404957.html?guccounter=1&#038;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&#038;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACc_SxhqV6S2ezxj49MteK6w6k6dRhO2jkaPDYC4A695wpLM9EP9Gj1v8pQg33pXvoQPVJJz8hMYlO-wqt6hNCLmDdSRnjnCUsw4AIHwuOiUVAqduVkgMwXDd8dQZwpSftm0i6rQwaeREXD4pkvualTDYVgFZS6QZfJCbf4-m7U6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yahoo Finance<\/a> that the decision was \u2064&#8221;unexpected,&#8221; but he thinks \u200cthe fact that this\u2064 was a \u200bjury trial \u2062and not a judge&#8217;s decision paid off for Epic \u2064(the Apple case was a judge&#8217;s decision).<\/p>\n<p>However, as both Gallant and\u2062 The Verge noted, Google plans on appealing the <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cand.364325\/gov.uscourts.cand.364325.606.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decision<\/a>, so don&#8217;t\u200b expect\u2064 any imminent changes.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that \u200bmurky future, Epic is taking\u200c a victory lap.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today&#8217;s\u200b verdict is a win for all app developers\u2064 and consumers \u2064around the\u2063 world,&#8221;\u200d Epic said in a Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicgames.com\/site\/en-US\/news\/epic-v-google-trial-verdict-a-win-for-all-developers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a>. &#8220;It proves\u2064 that \u2064Google&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/apple-fined-1-million-euros-by-paris-court-over-app-store-practices\/\" title=\"Apple Fined 1 Million Euros by Paris Court Over App Store Practices\">app store practices<\/a> are illegal and they abuse their monopoly to extract exorbitant\u2063 fees, stifle competition and\u2063 reduce innovation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the course of the trial we saw evidence that Google was willing to pay billions of dollars to stifle\u200c alternative app\u2063 stores by paying developers to abandon their own store efforts and direct distribution plans, and offering highly lucrative agreements with device manufacturers in exchange for excluding competing app stores.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Epic \u200badded a jab at Google, accusing the tech titan \u200cof being less than\u2064 forthcoming in the legal \u2063proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This\u200d is, of course, what we know,&#8221; Epic said. &#8220;From the CEO\u200b down, Google \u200bemployees willfully \u2062re-directed sensitive conversations to chat, \u2064knowing that their contents would\u2062 be deleted forever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The evidence presented in this case demonstrates the urgent need for legislation and regulations that address\u200b Apple\u200b and Google \u2062strangleholds over smartphones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, at the end of\u2062 the day, this\u200c case is about a\u2062 multibillion-dollar company (Epic) taking \u200don\u200c a trillion-dollar company (Google) over matters\u200c of profit \u2014 something most Americans cannot relate to on \u2063any level.<\/p>\n<p>But \u2062it also \u200brepresents the growing tide against &#8220;the way things are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the past, perhaps\u2064 Google\u200c and Epic would have come\u2063 to a hefty settlement and\u200d the world collectively moved \u2064on.\u200c Google is, quite literally, a \u2062monolith so embedded in the culture\u2063 that it operates \u200cas a noun, proper noun and verb.<\/p>\n<p>But now? With the tech overlords at Google (overlords who may need to retain better lawyers) eating an\u200d actual loss in court, perhaps it&#8217;s \u2064time for everyday Americans to take a page out of the playbook of Epic Games:<\/p>\n<p>Fight,\u2063 fight, and when you lose, fight some more.\u2062 You just might get \u2062that W yet.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/google-fail-big-tech-titan-handed-brutal-court-loss-monopoly-allegations\/\">Google Fail: Big Tech Titan\u2062 Handed Brutal Court \u2062Loss Over Monopoly Allegations<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">  <\/p>\n<h2> How might the recent verdict against Google impact the practices and competitiveness of app stores in the mobile gaming \u2062industry<\/h2>\n<p><span>  The past several years, Epic Games, the company behind the popular &#8220;Fortnite&#8221; video game, has been locked in\u200b a legal battle with two\u2063 of the biggest smartphone storefronts, the \u200dGoogle Play \u200bStore\u200b and the Apple App Store. Epic \u2064accused both companies of operating illegal monopolies and taking excessive cuts of its earnings through their app stores.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Epic lost\u2063 its case against Apple, but \u2062it seems\u2063 that they have emerged victorious in their battle against Google. A recent\u200c jury verdict found that Google had turned its Google \u200cPlay app store and Google Play Billing service into an illegal monopoly. This\u2063 decision was unexpected but incredibly significant for Epic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts and legal experts have noted that the fact that this was a jury trial, unlike the\u2062 Apple case which was decided by \u2063a \u2063judge, may have influenced the outcome. Nevertheless, Google has announced\u2063 its intention\u2063 to appeal the decision, so the future outcome remains uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the potential for further legal battles, Epic Games has \u200bcelebrated this verdict as a win for both app\u200c developers and consumers worldwide. In a blog post,\u2062 Epic stated that the verdict proves that Google&#8217;s app store\u200b practices are illegal and \u2063that the company abuses its monopoly power to extract steep fees, stifle competition, and hinder innovation.<\/p>\n<p>While the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/budweiser-maker-promises-free-beer-if-70-of-u-s-adults-vaccinated-by-july-4\/\" title=\"Budweiser Maker Promises Free Beer If 70% Of U.S. Adults Vaccinated By July 4\">long-term implications<\/a> of this decision are yet to be seen, it marks a significant milestone in the ongoing debate \u200cover the power and \u200cpractices of \u2062tech giants in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/precisely-what-the-antitrust-laws-prohibit-epic-games-appeals-apple-app-store-ruling\/\" title=\"'Precisely What the Antitrust Laws Prohibit:' Epic Games Appeals Apple App Store Ruling\">mobile gaming industry<\/a>. \u2063The outcome of these legal\u200c battles could potentially\u200c reshape the landscape of app stores \u200band create a more competitive environment for developers.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, Epic Games&#8217; recent victory \u200dagainst Google in the legal battle over app store practices is a \u2062major achievement for the company and a significant development in the ongoing fight \u2062against alleged\u2063 monopolistic practices \u200cin the tech industry.\u200c As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/appeals-court-hands-win-to-man-sent-to-jail-over-hillary-clinton-meme\/\" title=\"Man jailed over Hillary Clinton meme wins appeal\">appeals process unfolds<\/a>, the impact of this decision will become clearer, and the future of the \u2062mobile gaming industry could be forever changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner, winner, chicken dinner.&#8221; Inspired by the success of its hit game &#8220;Fortnite,&#8221; Epic Games triumphed over a major challenge from Big Tech, emerging victorious &#8211; at least for now. The gaming community and mobile enthusiasts are well aware of Epic&#8217;s battle against the dominant forces in smartphone gaming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2015,"featured_media":2124150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2124149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2124150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}