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Title: CEO of Epic Games says App Store is an 'absolute monopoly' Post by: HCK on July 26, 2020, 04:05:19 pm CEO of Epic Games says App Store is an 'absolute monopoly'
Tim Sweeney was also critical of Google Play. What you need to know The CEO of Epic Games has vocally criticized the App Store. Tim Sweeney says the marketplace is an "absolute monopoly." He says that Apple has "locked down and crippled the ecosystem." The CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, has vocally criticized Apple's App Store as an "absolute monopoly" which has crippled the ecosystem. As a new CNBC report notes: Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said that Apple's App Store is a "absolute monopoly" and Google's control of Android "essentially stifles competing stores" on CNBC's Squawk Alley on Friday, adding his voice to a chorus of detractors ahead of the CEOs testifying in Congress in the coming weeks. In an interview with CNBC's Julia Boorstin Sweeney said: "Apple has locked down and crippled the ecosystem by inventing an absolute monopoly on the distribution of software, on the monetization of software" They are preventing an entire category of businesses and appli... Source: CEO of Epic Games says App Store is an 'absolute monopoly' (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/Cc7vrB9nPSs/ceo-epic-games-says-app-store-absolute-monopoly) |