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Seoul: Gaming giant Epic's CEO on Tuesday launched another broadside at Apple<\/a> and Google<\/a>, saying the tech giants must be stopped from abusing their control over the marketplaces for apps.
Epic Games<\/a>, creator of the hugely popular Fortnite<\/a>, is locked in bitter legal battles with Apple<\/a> and Google<\/a>, whose operating systems run nearly all the smartphones in the world.
Both tech giants charge fees on transactions made on Apple's App Store and Google Play, and contend these are appropriate.
But app makers have become increasingly furious in recent years over that cut.
\"Apple and Google... are using their new monopoly power to tax and prevent competition,\" Epic CEO<\/a> Tim Sweeney<\/a> said at the Global Conference for Mobile Application Ecosystem Fairness in Seoul.
\"We must not allow these two companies to control our digital lives.\"
Epic is seeking to force Apple to open up its marketplace to third parties, looking to circumvent the iPhone maker's procedures and commissions of up to 30 percent.
Sweeney also took aim at Google for charging fees on payments it does not process.
\"Only a monopoly can do that,\" he said.
The Epic CEO<\/a> and other conference participants also praised South Korea, which in August became the first country in the world to pass a law banning Apple and Google from forcing developers to use their payment systems.
Mounting pressure
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\"Google Play's service fee has never been simply for payment processing,\" it told AFP in response to Sweeney's comments on Tuesday.
\"It's how we provide Android<\/a> and Google Play for free and invest in the many distribution, development, and security services that support developers and consumers.\"
AFP has reached out to Apple for a response to Sweeney.
Apple CEO Tim Cook defended its cut during court proceedings in May, saying: \"We are creating the entire amount of commerce on the store and we are doing that by getting the largest audience there.\"
Pressure has been mounting on Apple and Google, including from some major developers such as music streaming giant Spotify and dating service Tinder's parent company Match Group.
Apple and Google have also raised the eyebrows of regulators in major jurisdictions such as the European Union, Australia and India.
Both have made some changes to their marketplaces since last year, however.
Google last month announced it would halve its commission on subscriptions to 15 percent starting January 2022, saying 99 percent of developers would qualify for that rate or less.
Apple reduced its commission to 15 percent for newcomers and developers making less than a million dollars annually.
It had already cut its 30 percent commission in half for paid subscriptions after the first year.
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史诗的首席执行官说,苹果、谷歌必须阻止滥用垄断地位
史诗般的游戏,广受欢迎的Fortnite的创造者,是锁在苦与苹果和谷歌的法律斗争,其操作系统运行在世界上几乎所有的智能手机。
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首尔:游戏巨头史诗首席执行长周二发起猛烈攻击另一个苹果和谷歌说,科技巨头必须阻止滥用控制权的市场应用。
史诗般的游戏的创造者,广受欢迎Fortnite锁在激烈的法律纠纷苹果和谷歌的操作系统运行在世界上几乎所有的智能手机。
这两家科技巨头收费交易在苹果的应用商店和谷歌,并认为这是适当的。
但应用程序制造商近年来越来越激烈的削减。
“苹果和谷歌…正在使用他们的新垄断权力征税和防止竞争,”史诗的首席执行官 蒂姆·斯威尼移动应用生态系统在全球会议上说公平在首尔。
“我们不能允许这两家公司控制我们的数字生活”。
史诗是试图迫使苹果公司向第三方开放其市场,寻求规避iPhone制造商的程序和高达30%的佣金。
斯威尼还瞄准谷歌收取费用支付不过程。
“只有一个垄断企业能做到这一点,”他说。
的史诗的首席执行官和其他与会者也赞扬了韩国,8月成为世界上第一个国家通过一项法律禁止苹果和谷歌迫使开发人员使用他们的支付系统。
越来越大的压力
“谷歌的服务费用付款从来都不是简单的处理,“这周二回应《理发师陶德》的评论中告诉法新社。
“这是我们如何提供安卓和谷歌免费玩,投资很多分布、发展和安全服务,支持开发人员和消费者。”
法新社已经达到了苹果对《理发师陶德》的回应。
苹果CEO Tim Cook辩护法庭审理期间削减今年5月,他说:“我们正在创造整个数量的商务的存储和我们正在做最大的观众。”
压力已经安装在苹果和谷歌,包括一些大开发商如音乐流媒体巨头Spotify和约会服务易燃物的母公司匹配组。
苹果和谷歌的眉毛也提高了监管机构在欧盟等主要地区,澳大利亚和印度。
都有他们的市场自去年以来,做了一些修改。
上个月谷歌订阅委员会宣布将减半至15%从2022年1月开始,称99%的开发者将有资格获得这个速度或更少。
苹果新委员会下调至15%,开发者每年不到一百万美元。
它已经削减其30%的佣金在付费订阅后第一年的一半。
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