Tim Sweeney capitalized on yet another opportunity to take a dig at both Apple and Google during a Y Combinator event that happened on a Wednesday. The Epic Games CEO believes that the practices of massive technology entities continue to disrupt the positive flow of Sweeneys software business while also discouraging developers from gravitating to the platform. During the time that he was on stage, Sweeney stated that both Apple and Google have adopted gangster-style businesses, implying that they would stick with illegal strategies because they believe they can easily get away with it.Apart from categorizing Apples and Googles way of doing business as gangster, Tim Sweeney also comments that both firms do not operate in good faithAnyone who has followed the legal skirmish of Epic Games and Apple knows these two companies share a ton of history and bad blood. Tim Sweeney pulls no punches when it comes to criticizing the Cupertino giant regarding its behavior in stifling competition or preventing companies from generating extra income by forcing them to use the in-app payment system. Sweeney made the following remarks about both Apple and Google, stating that their illegal practices can only go away unless there is stricter enforcement of laws.The sad truth is that Apple and Google are no longer good-faith, law-abiding companies. Theyre run, in many ways, as gangster-style businesses that will do anything they think they can get away with. If they think that the fine is going to be cheaper than the lost revenue from an illegal practice, they always continue the illegal practice and pay the fine.Crime pays for big tech companies. Obviously, we shouldnt expect that to change until enforcement becomes much, much more vigorous.The grudge against Apple is due to the fact that no major game developer has been willing to distribute their titles through the Epic Games Store because of Apples associated fees. Apps that have more than one million downloads are required to pay the California-based titan a core technology payment of 50 cents per installation per year. Sweeney states that unless those games are generating immense levels of revenue, they are discouraged from going this route and says that Apple would end up bankrupting them instead of letting them thrive.As for Google, Sweeney states that the advertising behemoth does not take Apples direction, but users are dissuaded from trying out new apps because when they install the Epic Games Store on their Android handsets, they will receive a warning saying that the software is from an unknown source and might harm their device. This warning forces around 50-60 percent of users to abandon the installation process, severing yet another potential revenue stream for Epic Games. Given how Apple and Google profit from these practices, it is foolish to believe they will change their ways.News Source: TechcrunchDeal of the Day