The Epic Games Store Officially Launches on Mobile Devices - IGN
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After months of waiting, Epic has finally released a mobile version of the Epic Games Store, which is now available for Android devices worldwide as well as EU iOS devices.

Honestly I know people here are against Epic, but Google Play is such garbage that I welcome the epic store on Android.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        152·
        3 months ago

        I’m pointing out that what the article is showing (Epic opening their own app store) was always an option for them. The court ruling on Google’s app store didn’t enable that. It was always an option. This isn’t true on the Apple side, though. A non-Apple app store on iOS would be a significant change.

          • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
            91·
            3 months ago

            Your comment was:

            they’ve taken Apple, Google, and Samsung to the cleaners over this shit.

            The article is talking about a new app store. A new app store wasn’t part of “this shit”. Yes, Epic sued and got changes to Google’s app store pricing, but that has nothing to do with this article’s topic. I’m not that invested in this conversation, but you asked why I responded and that’s why. I hope you have a fantastic day!

              • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
                81·
                3 months ago

                Read better.

                Oh my, this is embarrassing for you. Look at my very first line in my quote:

                "Nothing prevented Epic from opening their own Appstore on Android. "

                So is this where I tell you to “read better”?

                  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    61·
                    3 months ago

                    My whole thread was specifically about Android. You know what? You’re looking to salvage a victory out of this based upon pedantry. If you’re that bad off that you need that, go ahead and take the win if you can call it that. I hope your circumstances get better in the future.

              • Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish
                51·
                3 months ago

                The iOS version also has nothing to do with their lawsuit of Apple, they lost that one. It’s due to an unrelated law in the EU, which is why this is only available in the EU.

                  • Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    2·
                    3 months ago

                    The EU has had digital legislations since long before that lawsuit. Or do you think Epic is also responsible for GDPR?.

                    So you think that the European commission saw a lawsuit in a different country and decided “We need that” then rushed to write the entirety of DMA in less than 4 months. If you think DMA and Epic lawsuits are related the most possible order of events is that Epic saw what was going to be passed in the EU and decided to suit Apple and Google to get the same in the USA

      • Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        3 months ago

        The state of California also determined that 30% tax was okay for Apple to charge, so they’re not very objective with their determinations.

        • Rose@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          One was a jury trial and the other wasn’t. Google had plenty of records of their internal communications but Apple had a different practice. This article by The Verge does a decent job at highlighting the differences.

      • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
        94·
        3 months ago

        You mean the same fee every store under the sun charges? Epic is the only one that doesn’t, and they pretty much just do it for marketing.

        They are not the good guys. They’re Elon Musk before he took the mask off, though it slips through now and then.

              • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
                42·
                3 months ago

                None of that means Google wasn’t exploiting anticompetitive measures to ensure everyone has to pay their exorbitant 30% tax in their app store.

                Something he repeats ad nauseum.

                I find it hard to believe someone so invested in this outcome knows nothing about it.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      41·
      3 months ago

      Yeah. I’ve had Amazon’s for a very long time. There was never anything preventing epic from making their own store. Epic was trying to make Google play store host the download for the epic game store.

      • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        It’s a bit more than that, though. Epic lost their lawsuit against Apple but they won theirs against Google.

        Google was colluding with OEMs to stifle competition on Android, and that practice was determined to be anticompetitive. Sure you could always jump through the Google-mandated hoops and install a third-party store, but then you could also always install other browsers on Windows even when Internet Explorer was the default, and that was also determined to be anticompetitive.

        • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Which is silly, since Apple has gone beyond colluding, and simply blocks everything they can within their walled garden. You’ve never even had the option to install other app stores or sideload apps on an iPhone. Meanwhile, you’ve always been able to on Android. For the past several years it will even hold your hand and highlight/show you what options you need to allow to do it within the OS.

          • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            I agree, but that’s what the courts decided. IANAL but I’m assuming it hinges on the pretense that Android is supposed to be an open ecosystem where partners and OEMs are given fair treatment, while iOS is a top-to-bottom “product” controlled by a single company that makes their own business arrangements.

            In short, Apple deciding to block Epic from having their own app store, fine. Google bribing/coercing Android OEMs to prioritize the Play Store and not pre-install or facilitate the Epic Store, not fine.

            I don’t think the courts would have cared if Google locked down their own Pixel phones to block out Epic, but it’s the act of throwing their weight around as the OS provider to their business partners (the OEMs) that they took issue with.