Is the Google Play Store unfair to players?

I'm David Brancaccio in New York.

What can we learn about money markets and business from the huge video game industry?

We call our project here Skin in the game, but today a

lesson from the headlines on antitrust. A civil trial is set to start today pitting

video game maker epic against Google. A jury in San Francisco will decide

whether Google's App Store uses monopoly power to unfairly drive up prices

for app developers and game players.

If this case sounds familiar, it's because Epic sued Apple over similar claims.

The video game maker says both the iOS and Android mobile operating systems, coerce of EPIC's popular Fort Knight game

to make in-app purchases through apples and Google's payment system ensuring the

tech giants get a cut of revenues. EP Epic wants to be able to include an alternative payment method that bypasses

apples and Google's transaction fees.

For the most part, Epic lost its battle against Apple,

and both sides are appealing. Now it's Google's

turn and ahead of the trial the company agreed to settle with other plaintiffs who

were involved. 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, as well as Match Group, the operator of

dating apps.

Google agreed to pay match $40 million and give it access to its so-called user choice

billing system announced last year.

Through that system Google charges a lower service fee.

EPIC has dismissed that option saying it still allows Google to tax transactions.

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