Sean Hollister, writing for The Verge:
But Google has finally muzzled Tim Sweeney. It’s right there in a
binding term sheet for his settlement with Google.On March 3rd, he not only signed away Epic’s rights to sue and
disparage the company over anything covered in the term sheet — Google’s app distribution practices, its fees, how it treats games
and apps — he signed away his right to advocate for any further
changes to Google’s app store policies, too. He can’t criticize
Google’s app store practices. In fact, he has to praise them.The contract states that “Epic believes that the Google and
Android platform, with the changes in this term sheet, are
procompetitive and a model for app store / platform operations,
and will make good faith efforts to advocate for the same.” […]And while Epic can still be part of the “Coalition for App
Fairness,” the organization that Epic quietly and solely funded
to be its attack dog against Google and Apple, he can only
point that organization at Apple now.
Sounds like a highly credible coalition that truly stands for fairness to me.
