Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, February 17th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Epic Games takes its war with Apple to Europe, but Apple wins a skirmish in North Dakota of all places.

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Expanding the Theater of War here, Epic Games has filed a formal antitrust complaint against Apple to the European Commission, claiming

that Apple imposes commercially unviable burdens on rivals, quoting from the Financial Times.

Epic alleged Apple has quote not just harmed but completely

eliminated competition in app distribution and payment processes

by staging a string of

carefully designed anti-competitive restrictions end quote which it

argued are in breach of EU law in the Brussels filing epic also accused Apple of

giving itself preferential treatment by launching its own gaming distribution service, Apple Arcade,

while making it difficult for competitors to bundle multiple games into single apps within the app store.

What's at stake here is the very future of mobile platforms,

said Tim Sweeney, Epic Games founder and chief executive.

Consumers have the right to install apps from sources of their choosing, and developers have the right to

compete in a fair marketplace."

He said his company will fight what he regards as Apple's abuse of its

dominant platform.

Quote, it's bad for consumers who are paying inflated prices due to the

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