Google challenges Epic Games' claim of separate demand for alternative-payment solutions in Australian court
By Saloni Sinha ( July 4, 2024, 08:38 GMT | Insight) -- Separate demand alone is insufficient to define a market for alternative in-app payment solutions because it is crucial to assess whether offering such alternatives is economically efficient, Google told an Australian court hearing an antitrust lawsuit brought by Epic Games. While continuing his closing arguments on the penultimate day of a 16-week long antitrust trial, Google lawyer Cameron Moore said that the question of efficiency feeds into the analysis of whether there would be separate demand.Separate demand alone is insufficient to define a market for alternative in-app payment solutions because it is crucial to assess whether offering such alternatives is economically efficient, Google told an Australian court hearing an antitrust lawsuit brought by Epic Games....
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