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Epic Games-Google app store US antitrust trial kicks off with jury hearing starkly different views of competition in Android ecosystem

By Mike Swift and Amy Miller ( November 7, 2023, 00:27 GMT | Insight) -- Epic Games and Google painted starkly different pictures of the state of competition in Android smartphones as an antitrust trial got underway in San Francisco on the game maker‘s allegations that Google’s iron grip on Android hurt developers and consumers by boosting prices and wounding innovation. Google has used two key tactics — “bribe” and “block” — to limit competition to the Google Play app store, a lawyer for Epic argued. A Google lawyer countered that the Internet giant competes directly with Apple, a competition that has benefited consumers and developers.Epic Games and Google painted starkly different pictures of the state of competition in Android smartphones as a one-month antitrust trial got underway today in San Francisco on the game maker's allegations that Google’s iron grip on Android hurt developers and consumers by boosting prices and wounding innovation....

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