With the legal battle facing epic games against Google and Apple due to Fortnite, the two main mobile stores They are carefully used to oppose his veto to the game. Although Google has a different strategy from Apple: the Play Store completely blocks the term “Fortnite” in research.
There may be more than a million and a half applications in Google Play, but that does not mean that there are everyone who, as a user, we want to install. Fortnite is a clear example: Google expelled the jewelry of Epic, giving rise to a battle against the company. Interestingly, Apple did a team with Google in a test they ended up losing. Even so, stores maintain iron control, with nuances.
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Google has decided to block the term “Fortnite” by Google Play
On the left, search on Google Play without results for “Fortnite”. On the right, results of the App Store
Most people who have a smartphone ignore that games like Fortnite are not in mobile stores. And of course, the logical thing is to look for it: writing “Fortnite” in the Google Play search engine and App Store is something as logical as usual. But that doesn't throw the same result.
While research in the App Store locates different Fortnite clones and applications linked to the term, on Google Play, nothing appears that is approaching the most famous epic games. In addition, Google opted for a drastic solution: Veto the name of research. Not the store, since Cohabitan applies with Fortnite in the name, in the name and even in the games inspired by the above -mentioned Fortnite. Battle Royale Wallpapers, for example, also pixels of Fortnite.
Apple has no problem showing the results of Fortnite, although None of them is real. In addition: Apple takes advantage of the search volume to offer sponsored applications that little (or nothing) have to do with the game. For example, Snake.ios is promoted as Fortnite; As much as the epic title does not look far beyond being multiplayer and using the touch screen.
Google and Apple have a serious problem with Fortnite and, by extension, with the developer behind. Despite this, his way of acting is different, surely motivated by the pressure they exert on the platforms the various governments, such as Europe and the American. Google prefers to cut the root and Apple is something more permissive.
Mobile stores admit any application. Provided that Google and Apple wish
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It can be both Apple and Google to put the store and the millions of devices that serve the door to users, but These are the developers who end up giving value to the phones. Because someone would like to buy a mobile that didn't have WhatsApp, Instagram or Chatgpt? Surely not, Huawei had problems with that of the veto of the United States. And store owners benefit from energy Developer pressure exercise And, by extension, against users.
The fact that Google restricts the term Fortnite and Apple allows it is a sample of the domain exercised by the owners of the store on what they store on the shelves. In none of the two is the original gameAlthough the owner of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, said that Fortnite will soon be in the App Store. For the moment, it is difficult: Apple again exercises its decision -making power.
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