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Epic Games' Australian victory casts doubt on Apple's global defense model

By Saloni Sinha, Alex Wilts, Chris May and James Panichi ( August 22, 2025, 03:38 GMT | Comment) -- Apple and Google’s resounding defeat in the Australian antitrust lawsuit brought against them by Epic Games was a shot across the bow of all tech companies wanting to adopt a one-size-fits all defense strategy to global litigation. The recent finding by a judge that Apple and Google’s app stores had violated antitrust laws highlighted differences in both Australia’s legal framework and the judge’s outlook on the significance of the platforms’ approach to competition. Epic Games’ antitrust lawsuit targeting Apple and Google over the tech giants’ app-store policies was brimming with déjà vu when it was heard in an Australian courtroom last year. The evidence, the arguments, the cross-examination of witnesses — it was all largely a rerun of lawsuits that had already unfolded in a US court....

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