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by TotempaaltJ 2139 days ago
Fortnite is very popular and this together with other companies jumping in on it has the potential to bring the tech monopoly discussion even further into the mainstream discourse. Epic is big enough for that and I think that's the battle they're trying to fight, not a legal one.
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I don't think any other companies are going to jump on board. How many other companies have their own payment processing that will incorporate into their apps just to be banned? If nobody else is banned then they not really in the fight like Epic is.

Epic, in my opinion, can only briefly bring this into mainstream discourse. Maybe we'll hear about next week in mainstream media and then it will be forgotten. If this starts a whole movement, that's something else entirely, but I don't see many other companies willing to risk their business for this. Epic is mostly unique in that it's both big enough to do this fight but small enough not to get special treatment like Amazon.