Apple has created the ultimate monopoly

After bad reviews for Microsoft which promotes the Microsoft Store, creating a closed for developers, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney "put it up" with Apple and Google.

Both have created app stores based entirely on the idea of ​​a monopoly, Sweeney said, noting the 30% fee developers have to pay Google and Apple to sell their apps.

In an interview to CNBC, Sweeney says the extra fees developers must agree to only increase the of applications and games. Apple has invented what Sweeney calls an "absolute monopoly," while Google doesn't leave competing stores with "UI barriers."

Epic Games previously released Fortnite for Android, one of the most popular mobile games, as a standalone APK installer to avoid the 30% fee that Google demanded to make the game available through the Play Store. However, the game was finally released on the Play Store after Sweeney admitted that the manual it was too complicated a process for some of its users.

"Google is deliberately suppressing competing stores by blocking the user," Sweeney told CNBC.

"If any developer could accept the amount requested without adding a 30% from Apple and Google, we could pass the discount on to all our consumers."

Sweeney's company created it Epic Game Store last year, with developers paying a fee of 12 percent.

"Apple has locked in and paralyzed its ecosystem by inventing an absolute monopoly on software distribution, and software revenue generation," Sweeney said.

Next week, representatives of various technology companies, such as the CEO of Apple, , will attend a congressional hearing on their anti-competitive practices.

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