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Ryuu96 on 17 November 2022
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Alphabet Inc's Google has struck deals with at least 24 big app developers to stop them from competing with its Play Store, including an agreement to pay Activision Blizzard Inc about $360 million over three years, according to a court filing on Thursday.

The deal with Activision was announced in January 2020, soon after it told Google it was considering launching its own app store. Google around the same time was forecasting billions of dollars in lost app store sales if developers fled to alternative systems.

Epic's lawsuit alleged that Google knew signing with Activision "effectively ensured that (Activision) would abandon its plans to launch a competing app store, and Google intended this result." The agreement increases prices and lowers quality of service; the lawsuit added.

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Interesting, if it's true. Google paying Activision $360m over 3 years just to keep them from making their own app store. Microsoft probably won't take that bribe, since they want their own app store on Android/iOS and that kind of money is chump change to Microsoft.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 17 November 2022