On: Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypassing the Play Store

[kodablah]

Depending on who you ask and how they feel about their platform, the answer is "yes, on that platform".

[Drakim → kodablah]

Android is based on Linux, Google doesn't get to make that sort of ownership claim.

[kodablah → Drakim]

Those people I was talking about that think that some money should be paid for existing on their platform, their reasoning is unrelated to what the OS is based on.