Lawyers, leading voices weigh in on Epic antitrust win over Google

This afternoon, a jury handed Epic Games a win in its antitrust lawsuit against Google. For three years, the game publisher has sued both Apple and Google over the companies’ alleged anticompetitive practices.

While Epic largely lost its antitrust case against Apple, the Fortnite and Rocket League publisher prevailed over Google. There are key distinctions between the cases against Apple and Google. First, a judge ruled in the Apple case compared to a jury in Google’s. Also unlike Apple, Google needed to contract with third-party phone manufacturers to control their ecosystem.