News of the Cyber World

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Do you love playing Fortnite?

Then read this!

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53777379
Because Epic Games preferred to offer a discount bypassing Apple's and Google's policies on revenues, both of them removed Fortnite from their stores!
They usually get a large cut, 30% to be exactly, but they refuse to let people download and install it on their devices if it's not via their stores.
Epic Games even tried to convince manufacturers like OnePlus and LG to preinclude the game or implement a separate store so people could purchase it "directly" from Epic. Google, the evil corporation, has blocked such efforts forcing anybody negotiating with Epic Games to reject the proposals.
Thus Epic Games had to filed a complaint against Apple and Google in California. EG claims they're trying to keep the control of their monopoly. Instead of a compensation they asked for offering Apple's and Google's customers a better deal by respecting their rights.

Here's Google's position on this topic.

The open Android ecosystem lets developers distribute apps through multiple app stores.
For game developers who choose to use the Play Store, we have consistent policies that are fair to developers and keep the store safe for users.

Safe they said!? Did they forget I've reported how they let THOUSANDS of malware get distributed via Play Store!?

Apple's reaction pretty much consists of asking Epic Games to resolve the violations before they can come back to them.