Epic Games launches Fortnite on the Play Store, after over a year of offering it only outside the store, noting Google puts sideloaded apps at a disadvantage
Epic Games is finally settling its feud — kind of — with Google and putting Fornite onto the Google Play Store, but the studio sounds pretty pissed about it.
TechCrunch Lucas Matney
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Discussion
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@onejarednewman
Jared Newman
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Oh man, wait'll they find out how Apple treats non-App Store software! https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@dhh
@dhh
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The duopoly racket on mobile app stores is deeply anticompetitive, exploitive, and abusive. We desperately need regulation to bust this stranglehold on software distribution. https://techcrunch.com/...
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@derekmross
Derek Ross
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Fortnite mobile is no longer considered malware https://www.polygon.com/...
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@vtoubiana
Vincent Toubiana
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Epic: “Google puts software downloadable outside of Google Play at a disadvantage, through [...] measures such as scary, repetitive security pop-ups [...] and new efforts such as Play Protect to outright block software obtained outside the Play store” https://techcrunch.com/...
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@tocelot
Jon Lai
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After a year+ living in the wild as a 3rd party Android app, @FortniteGame comes to @GooglePlay after all with standard terms. If Fortnite couldn't pressure the app stores to change their policies, unlikely anyone else can at this point https://www.theverge.com/...
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@ericflo
Eric Florenzano
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This bums me out so badly. Even with Epic's funding, market position, and the world's biggest hit game as a beachhead, they still couldn't escape the grip of the app distribution cartel. https://www.theverge.com/...
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@kifleswing
Kif
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Epic Games launches Fortnite on the Google Play Store (previously, you had to sideload it) https://techcrunch.com/... via @techcrunch
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@ballmatthew
Matthew Ball
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This is good for no one and telling that even after 18 months and the Amazon-iOS IAP deal, Epic couldn't ‘win’ this battle with the #2 mobile OS Epic gives in to Google and releases Fortnite on the Play Store https://www.theverge.com/... via @Verge
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@joshconstine
@joshconstine
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Fortnite says Google screws over sideloaded apps so it's coming back to Google Play. The message to regulators: stop them! https://twitter.com/...
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@keepitwilde
WildeFnbr
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Yo whaaat? I coulda sworn this game was free lmaoo https://twitter.com/...
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@katie_roof
Katie Roof
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Turns out gaming and video chat are doing really well right now! https://twitter.com/...