# Professor Nicholas Economides weighs in on Epic Games' recent allegations that Apple and Google breached anti-trust laws by charging app developers a 30% fee on sales and imposing other restrictions that benefit their own businesses

1 Faculty News August 17, 2020 ![Reuters logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030503.jpg?itok=0OAgrDF0)>

Excerpt from [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-epic-games-analysis/apples-extreme-app-policies-give-google-defense-in-fortnite-antitrust-suit-idUSKCN25D1NK#:~:text=Apple's%20'extreme'%20app%20policies%20give%20Google%20defense%20in%20Fortnite%20antitrust%20suit,-Paresh%20Dave&text=OAKLAND%2C%20Calif.,companies%20breached%20anti%2Dtrust%20laws.) -- "But in the end, alternatives exist, said [Nicholas Economides](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/nicholas-economides), a New York University economics professor who studies online marketplaces.'Having other options definitely makes it a bit harder to say something is anticompetitive,' Economides said, speaking generally about app stores."

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