As we told youlast week, Tim Sweeney, the president of Epic Games, traveled to Seoul to participate in a conference dedicated to fairness on mobile application platforms.
This meeting allowed representatives of the Coalition for App Fairness, a collective of developers who advocate fairer rules on the App Store and the Google Play Store, to express themselves. Among them, we find the publisher of Tinder, Match Group, but also Spotify.
“We must stop Apple”
Tim Sweeney occupies a unique position on this subject, since his company, Epic Games, opposes Apple over its application store. The confrontation is played out at the same timein the legal field, where it continues, but also political, where the two firms try to influence regulators.
The head of Epic Games took advantage of his intervention in South Korea to assert his position. He explains:
What the world really needs now is a single store that works across all platforms. Currently, software ownership is fragmented between the iOS App Store, Android's Google Play Marketplace, various stores on Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch, and then the Microsoft Store and Mac App Store .
Tim Sweeney specifies that his company is working with other market players to create a system allowing customers “to purchase software in one place, knowing they would have it on all devices and platforms.»
Finally, the boss welcomed the new Korean law which prohibits application stores from forcing developers to go through their payment system. He jumped at the opportunity to launch new barbs in the direction of Apple. He accuses the Cupertino company of bending “to oppressive foreign laws”, while ignoring “the laws adopted by Korean democracy.» «Apple must be stopped», he concludes.
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