> If they want to compete they need to release their own phone with their own store to sell games for it. This isn't realistic. Nobody wants to carry two phone

> If they want to compete they need to release their own phone with their own store to sell games for it. This isn't realistic. Nobody wants to carry two phones, and no one will choose to carry Epic's phone instead of Google's if they can't access the full Android ecosystem with it. Google has very intentionally used this to gain a monopoly on Android users even though the platform is ostensibly open source. They say to phone makers: If you want the Google Play store, you have to prohibit other stores (and bundle the Google apps, make Google Search the default, and N other things that benefit Google). Phone makers have to agree because you just can't sell a phone these days that doesn't have access to at least one of the Play Store or the Apple Store. No one would buy it. There used to be manufacturers that tried, back when the ecosystem was smaller, but they failed, and it has only become harder since. This policy is 100% designed to prevent competition from taking hold, leaving Google in complete control of the Android app ecosystem. Sure it's not as bad as Apple, but it's absolutely anti-competitive. There is a simple solution: Allow users to install competing app stores. Few people mind carrying multiple app stores on their phone (compared to carrying multiple phones). Competition will be able to grow incrementally and then maybe, someday, it will have grown enough that you could actually have a phone with only Epic's store and not Google's.