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Without Apple there would be Windows Phone, Blackberry, and Android devices for Epic to sell games on.

• pjmlp 6y ago
  With the same percentages that Epic isn't willing to pay for, actually on Blackberry it was even higher than 30% back in the old days. Epic has been kicked out of Android as well, and as this Ars Technica article shows, they are more than happy to pay XBox tax.
  • saghm 6y ago
    > Epic has been kicked out of Android as well Is that really accurate? Android supports sideloading, which I think is how they first brought Fortnite to Android. They might have been kicked out of the Google Play store, but that's not the same thing.
    • pjmlp 6y ago
      AOSP supports sideloading, if a given device supports it depends pretty much on the OEM, besides that is a feature that requires technical expertise and ignoring a couple of warnings about possible malware.
      • saghm 6y ago
        I've seen devices with with locked bootloaders, but I've honestly never seen an Android device without the ability to sideload (even if it's disabled by default). That's not to say I don't believe you that some OEMs disable it; I don't think it's particularly common though.