Cracks appear in the walled gardens

Authorities on both sides of the Atlantic are chipping away at Android and iOS

Five years ago, it would have been hard to imagine that the maker of Fortnite would become the biggest threat to Apple and Google. But a series of court and regulator victories in both the EU and the US means Epic Games is now arguably the most potent risk to the business model of the mobile duopoly. In the EU, Apple has already been forced to offer third-party app stores on iOS – albeit in the most grudging, inconvenient way possible – and allow app makers to use their own payment systems. Now a Californian judge has ruled that Google must do likewise with Android, among a host of new conditions placed on the company. Google is, naturally, appealing. There’s even talk of the US Department of Justice seeking to…

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