Epic Games argues no Android app store can compete with Google Play
Google Play's dominance over rival Android app stores contributes to the tech giant's anti-competitive conduct, the Federal Court heard.
Epic Games said on Tuesday that the Google Play store faces no real competition from other Android app stores, as the Fortnite developer builds it anti-competition case against the tech giant before the Federal Court.
On the second day of the bumper 16-week trial between the game developer and Apple and Google in Melbourne, Garry Rich SC, acting for Epic, said Google’s arguments that Samsung’s Galaxy Store provided meaningful competition was not borne out by the fact that only 19% of Samsung’s monthly active users visited the Galaxy Store, compared with 83% that frequented the Play Store.
“The absence of material competitive constraint on Google by this app store, which is often pointed to [by Google] as a reason why Google doesn't have a significant degree of market power and why it is competitively constrained,” Rich told Federal Court of Australia Judge Jonathan Beach, who is presiding over the case.
"We say that is just not correct. We say your honour would reject that hypothesis.”
