Epic Games to sue Google, Samsung over alleged app-store scheme2024-09-30 16:22 by Daniela
Four years after Epic sued Google for running an illegal app store monopoly - a case it won this past December - Epic is suing again. The Fortnite game developer has filed a second antitrust lawsuit against Google, and now additionally Samsung, accusing them of illegally conspiring to undermine third-party app stores. The lawsuit revolves around Samsung's "Auto Blocker" feature, which now comes turned-on-by-default on new Samsung phones. While it's turned on, it automatically keeps users from installing apps unless they come from "authorized sources" - namely, Google and Samsung's app stores. Epic claims there’s no process for any rival store to become "authorized." When Epic filed its original lawsuits against Google and Apple in August 2020, it didn't yet have its own mobile app store. Now, it does: On August 16th, it launched the Epic Games Store on Android globally and on iPhones in the European Union where the EU Digital Markets Act forced Apple to allow alternate stores. But a month before it could launch its own store, Epic alleges, Samsung suddenly decided to make Auto Blocker more or less on-by-default - making it harder for new phone buyers to install competing apps themselves. Read more -here-
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