Apple has created the ultimate monopoly

After bad reviews for Microsoft which promotes the Microsoft Store, creating a closed platform για τους προγραμματιστές, ο Διευθύνων Σύμβουλος της Epic Games Tim Sweeney τα "έβαλε" με την Apple και την Google.

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

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

Epic Games had previously released the Fortnite για Android, ένα από τα πιο δημοφιλή παιχνίδια για κινητές συσκευές, σαν ένα αυτόνομο πρόγραμμα εγκατάστασης APK για να αποφύγει το τέλος του 30% που ζητούσε η Google για να διαθέσει το παιχνίδι μέσω του Play Store. Ωστόσο, το παιχνίδι κυκλοφόρησε τελικά στο Play Store αφού ο Sweeney παραδέχτηκε ότι η χειροκίνητη λήψη ήταν πολύ περίπλοκη procedure for some of its users.

"Google is essentially deliberately suppressing competing stores by putting up barriers for the user," Sweeney told CNBC.

"If every developer could accept the amount they're asking for without an additional 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.

"Η Apple έχει κλειδώσει και παραλύσει το οικοσύστημά της επινοώντας ένα απόλυτο μονοπώλιο στη διανομή λογισμικού, και τη δημιουργία εσόδων από το λογισμικό" ανέφερε ο Sweeney.

Next week, representatives of various technology companies, such as Apple CEO Tim Cook, will attend a congressional hearing on the anti-competitive methods they use.