According to recently unsealed court documents, Google was considering buying Epic Games as the companies squabbled over Epic's Fortnite Android app. Google had lifted some of its redactions in Epic's antitrust complaint against Google, which Epic amended and refiled last month. The article talks about the court documents that reveal that Google considered buying Epic during Fortnite.
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In recent years, Apple has faced one of its most serious legal threats; a trial that threatens to upend his relentless control of the App Store, which rakes in billions of dollars every year while powering more than 1.6 billion iPhones, iPads and other devices. On the other hand, Epic is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina, which also earns billions of dollars from its gaming business.
The complaint still omits many details about Google's relationships with specific companies, but the new details reflect Google's internal communications about competition on the Android platform. "Not content with the contractual and technical barriers it has carefully constructed to eliminate competition, Google is using its size, influence, power, and money to induce third parties to enter into anti-competitive agreements that further strengthen its monopolies," the complaint said. update, available via The Verge, says.
Google has gone so far as to share its monopoly profits with business partners in order to get their agreement to keep competition out. competitive alternatives and even considered buying some or all of Epic to quell this threat.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeny tweeted about the situation recently, saying it was unclear whether Google negotiated or made a hostile takeover bid. Internal messages discussing this possibility remain secret, and the complaint does not indicate that Google ever contacted Epic with these plans. It also doesn't give a timeline for the discussion - although it presumably happened after Epic began its Fortnite launch plans. on Android in 2018. In a tweet after this article was published, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said the plan "was without our knowledge at the time".
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