Comment by Tim Sweeney

So, on an open platform like Android should be. And it was advertised as being… All stores should operate at parity. Right? Once you’ve decided to install another store like the Epic Games store, it should have equal access the system software, as Google’s own store has, so that it should be able to install and update software as seamlessly as Google Play does. I mean, this is just a basic principle of competition. These stores need to be opened up. Open to let each developer choose which components to use in their software. They want to use Epic’s friends system, they can use Epic’s friend system and they want to use PayPal instead of Apple payment service. They should be free to use that. So you really have two principles. Number one is real open platforms where users can install software and developers can release software without permission of a mega corp. And number two is just the ability for apps from any source to be able to use services of their choosing and not be forced through compulsion and tying to to use, you know, especially use noncompetitive services like the iOS App Store. AI Unverifiable source (2020)
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AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to Tim Sweeney (Epic Games CEO) from his July 2020 Deconstructor of Fun interview "The Economy of the Metaverse". WebFetch on source URL returned HTTP 403. Web search confirmed the source page exists at that URL with matching content (e.g., "All stores should operate at parity", "basic principle of competition") and that the interview took place in 2020. Year was null; I updated it to 2020 based on IMDb/podcast metadata. Vote "for" correctly aligns with Sweeney's well-documented pro-open-platform position. A more recent (Nov 2025) Sweeney quote on this exact topic exists (Google settlement statement), but both TechCrunch and Benzinga were also blocked. Marking ai_unverifiable due to source URL being blocked. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 9d ago
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