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Epic is suing Google — again — and now Samsung, too
The Auto Blocker conspiracy theory.
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. Epic claims it now requires “an exceptionally onerous 21-step process” to download a third-party app store onto a Samsung phone, making it that much more likely users will give up somewhere along the way. While Sweeney claims Google’s previous attempts to add friction to third-party apps ( “Unknown Sources”) caused half the people who clicked “download” to give up partway, he admits he doesn’t yet have data showing that the Samsung feature is making things worse.
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