Epic v. Google: everything we learned in Fortnite court
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“Google made this investment to secure those titles on the Google Play Store,” says Koh. Epic lawyer Moskowitz was trying to get him to say Google spent the money to block a competing Activision app store from emerging — and Google certainly did believe Activision was threatening that app store, according to documents we’ve seen.
“Activision has told us they will build their own mobile store,” one line reads.
But Koh says Google was only worried about losing the games, not someone else gaining them, and we haven’t seen any obvious evidence yet to the contrary.
Google estimated that it would lose $243M a year in revenue if ABK removed its games. Its brand King makes Candy Crush, in case you’re unaware.
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