{"id":16073,"date":"2024-09-30T15:37:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/30\/epic-games-accuses-samsung-and-google-of-scheme-to-block-rivals\/"},"modified":"2024-09-30T15:37:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:37:39","slug":"epic-games-accuses-samsung-and-google-of-scheme-to-block-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/30\/epic-games-accuses-samsung-and-google-of-scheme-to-block-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games accuses Samsung and Google of scheme to block rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnite maker\u2019s lawsuit says Samsung Auto Blocker deters users from app downloads outside Google\u2019s Play store<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a> video game maker Epic Games on Monday accused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/alphabet\">Alphabet<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/google\">Google<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/samsung\">Samsung<\/a>, the world\u2019s largest Android phone manufacturer, of conspiring to protect Google\u2019s Play store from competition.<\/p>\n<p>Epic filed a lawsuit in US federal court in California alleging that a Samsung mobile security feature called Auto Blocker was intended to deter users from downloading apps from sources other than the Play store or Samsung\u2019s Galaxy store. It\u2019s Epic\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/dec\/11\/google-loses-fortnite-epic-games-antitrust-trial\">second antitrust suit against Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/sep\/30\/epic-games-google-samsung-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b3ad0710b9b9c6604121a9870717269fd2940f1a\/0_64_4800_2881\/master\/4800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f0eb1d34446fb9e432f066db8429b34b\" title=\"Epic Games accuses Samsung and Google of scheme to block rivals\" \/>Fortnite maker\u2019s lawsuit says Samsung Auto Blocker deters users from app downloads outside Google\u2019s Play store<br \/>\nFortnite video game maker Epic Games on Monday accused Alphabet\u2019s Google and Samsung, the world\u2019s largest Android phone manufacturer, of conspiring to protect Google\u2019s Play store from competition.<br \/>\nEpic filed a lawsuit in US federal court in California alleging that a Samsung mobile security feature called Auto Blocker was intended to deter users from downloading apps from sources other than the Play store or Samsung\u2019s Galaxy store. It\u2019s Epic\u2019s second antitrust suit against Google. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnite maker\u2019s lawsuit says Samsung Auto Blocker deters users from app downloads outside Google\u2019s Play store Fortnite video game maker Epic Games on Monday accused Alphabet\u2019s Google and Samsung, the world\u2019s largest Android phone manufacturer, of conspiring to protect Google\u2019s Play store from competition. Epic filed a lawsuit in US federal court in California alleging &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/30\/epic-games-accuses-samsung-and-google-of-scheme-to-block-rivals\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Epic Games accuses Samsung and Google of scheme to block rivals<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16073"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}