Melbourne, Australia – EPIC games, the company behind the famous game on the Internet, won a partial victory in an Australian court in the US billionaire claimed in the United States, Tim Sweeni Google and Apple participated in anti -competition behavior In operating their app stores.
On Tuesday, Federal Court Judge Jonathan Beach supported the main parts of EPIC that technology giants have violated the Australian competition laws by misuse their market authority against application developers and the use of restricted commercial practices.
Google and apple Beach found that the dominance of the application market had a significant impact on reducing competition and violating Australian law.
But the judge rejected some EPIC claim, including that Google and Apple participated in unreasonable behavior as defined under Australian law.
Sweeney also challenges Google and Apple in the application markets Through courts in the United States And Britain.
The litigation began in August 2020 when the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store expelled Fortnite because EPIC installed the direct payment feature in the unusually common game.
The court has spent both companies from the application developers, including EPIC through contracts and technology to sell its products through dominant application stores.
Epic posted on the Internet that the referee was: “Another huge victory for epic games!”
Apple said that the company “is facing fierce competition in every market in which we work.”
“We welcome the Australian Court’s rejection of some Epic’s allegations, however, we disagree with the court’s ruling on others,” Apple said in a statement.
Google said it would review the ruling. Google and Apple may appeal the ruling before the Federal Court of Federal.
“We are not facing the court’s description of our billing policies and practices, as well as the results it reached regarding some of our historical partnerships, which were all formed in a competitive, competitive scene on behalf of users and developers,” said a Google statement.
Beach has not yet issued a 952 -page ruling on the EPIC case against Apple or its 914 -page ruling on the case against Google.
The judge gave an oral summary of his results during a 90 -minute hearing on Tuesday.
Lawyers will return to the court no later than that they have not been appointed after they have been arguing with the right to damage in terms of damage.