The Australian court finds the power of the Apple market, abused from Google,

Epic Games has just won a victory in his crusade against Apple App Store policies of Apple and Google: the Australian Federal Court ruled on Tuesday that Apple and Google are committed to anti -competitive driving with regard to their respective application stores, ABC News reported.

While judge Jonathan Beach noted that the two technology giants had abused their dominant position on the market for the distribution of applications to limit competition, he rejected EPIC’s assertions that companies had engaged in “inadmissible behavior”.

Epic Games fought the structure of Apple and Google costs for purchases integrated in various jurisdictions around the planet. The company has marked A major victory against Apple this year in the United StatesAnd therefore, Fortnite returned to US Apple App Store after five years.

Tuesday’s decision could produce a similar result for Epic in Australia: the CEO of the company Tim Sweeny said That the Epic Games Store and Fortnite will soon return to the Apple App Store in the country.

“We welcome the rejection by the Court of Epic Requests that we distribute from application stores from Google Play Store, and Epic attacks against other critical security protections on which users rely. However, we do not agree with the characterization by the court of our policies and billing practices, as well as its conclusions concerning certain of our historical partnerships”. declared a google spokesperson in a declaration sent.

Meanwhile, Apple told ABC News that its App Store is the safest way for users to obtain applications and that it disagreed with the court’s decision on some of Epic allegations.