Epic Games is suing Google and Samsung for gatekeeping access to third-party app stores

01 October 2024
The new antitrust lawsuit alleges a coordinated effort between Google and Samsung to undermine third-party app stores via Samsung’s “Auto Blocker” setting.

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  • 01 Oct 2024

Google and Apple should join teams and sue epic in retaliation!
Hahahaha

    AnonF-1006353, 01 Oct 2024What are you talking about? I prefer android and it's ... more‘yeah i know, people who buy iPhones usually aren't people to look upto about proper spending habits’

    What a smug comment. You know nothing about other people’s spending habits pal, any more they know (or care) about your own. Given we are talking about hundreds of millions of people here, I’d wager there is a good amount of them who’d be able to teach you a thing or two on financial management 🤷

      This will have no end.
      Epic buy whole android and IOS and your tiny problem is solved

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        • 01 Oct 2024

        Mykl.Pluto, 01 Oct 2024If you owned the playstore you would make it free right? Wi... moreJust make it like linux software repo, free is definitely possible as long as no one thinks greedy

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          • Anonymous
          • 39x
          • 01 Oct 2024

          Not so Epic Games 😂

            draco, 01 Oct 2024is cause epic games fortnite has a money currency called v-... moreIf you owned the playstore you would make it free right? With all the infrastructure behind it and all the developers you have employed full time you will make it free right? What about the free apps that you cant charge them? you can ask for say 25 or 20 percent, but for the service developers and users get from Playstore, a one time payment of $25 by devs is way not enough.

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              • Anonymous
              • 2FY
              • 01 Oct 2024

              Instead of wasting money in court, Epic need to spend that money on fixing their shitty engine. Unreal engine still don not support Vulkan on Android properly. Vulkan 1.1 was standard on Android 10, which released in 2019.
              Also Unreal Engine performes badly on AMD, Intel and ARM gpus, when those gpu has no problem on other engine. Maybe AMD, Intel and ARM need to sue Epic for favouring Nvidia gpus.

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                • Anonymous
                • nDR
                • 01 Oct 2024

                Good job Epic, Samsung is one of he most privacy-invasive companies along with Google.

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                  • 01 Oct 2024

                  Anonymous, 01 Oct 2024Told you people. Who's the greedy now?? When Epic sued... moreWhat are you talking about? I prefer android and it's about time someone is calling out google for their increasing anti-consumer bs they're pushing lately. I cheer for it this time around aswell.

                    Epic is doing this to get children addicted to their phones playing Fortnite. Kids will use their parents phones to play games (which already have their parents' credit cards in it). They need to have access to the phone's screen lock (fingerprint, passwords) and voila! Easily spend money on microtransactions!

                    What a dystopian future lies for our children... Hopefully the future parents won't be so stupid (and will make use of the parental controls)

                      Anonymous, 01 Oct 2024Epic Games are nothing more than a bunch of whiny, hypocrit... moreBy this Logic Playsore should be blocked, many people get malware from playstore than any other app.

                        Anonymous, 01 Oct 2024Told you people. Who's the greedy now?? When Epic sued... moreThey sue Both Apple and Google at same time? Check your sources.

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                          • 01 Oct 2024

                          GregLu, 01 Oct 2024That's the thing, in future version of Android, sidelo... moreThen android will die in the form Google pushes it.
                          And vendors who allow it will get everyone else on board.
                          Simple as that. Don't believe me? See Microsoft.
                          Samsung are not stupid like European companies

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                            • ncr
                            • 01 Oct 2024

                            Samsung has it device secured and sell it secure, privacy protected included with knox. Still you can sideload apps but you need indeed more steps than other devices. But you can also download on many brands with android a store but you must switch off installing apps from other sources.

                            It's possible and there is a difference in sideloading and just install a downloaded app on your device but still you must give premission too install an apk ap loose on your device.

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                              • 01 Oct 2024

                              I turned off stupid Samsung blocker because it blocked pop up window on our own internal app and we couldn't download payroll in PDF from our internal app. This blocker is so stupid and yes, it is blocking Epic Games store too. This is Ai blocker. AI blocker my ass.

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                                • 01 Oct 2024

                                tired of epic yapper

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                                  • 01 Oct 2024

                                  Anonymous, 01 Oct 2024Epic Games are nothing more than a bunch of whiny, hypocrit... moreis cause epic games fortnite has a money currency called v-bucks which you can buy with real money to buy skins and dancing emotes/song in the game, and since epic games actually cares for customers and want to offer those v bucks packs for the same amount of money for every platform and not increase/ lose money on them cause of greedy companies like apple appstore payment system and google playstore payment system which take 30% cut for those transactions , they built their own store app/ download platform so they wont pay those 30% to google/apple

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                                    • 01 Oct 2024

                                    Anonymous, 01 Oct 2024Told you people. Who's the greedy now?? When Epic sued... moreMost of us know it already and degoogle is a thing. Thats the difference. We have a choice to avoid Google unlike Apple.

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                                      • KLR
                                      • 01 Oct 2024

                                      Samsung and Google think that APKs can harm your device in seconds.

                                      All I wanted is to play Customcast3D which is not regulated to their store and its clean as the game itself.

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                                        • Anonymous
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                                        • 01 Oct 2024

                                        Told you people. Who's the greedy now?? When Epic sued Apple or crying to big mama EU. You Android sheep cheering for it. Now, where all of you hide?? Buried your head under the sand?? LoL at you 🤣🤣