Epic claims the Auto Blocker features made by Samsung protects Google’s monopoly over other third party stores, like Epic’s own.
After scoring a so-so victory against Apple in the long trial against the iPhone maker due to the fees Apple claimed through its obligatory AppStore, reducing the profits Epic made with Fortnite, Epic is now targeting the other giant in the mobile market for a similar reason: Google and Samsung.
Epic Games has announced they are filing a court case against those two companies over coordinated efforts to block competition in app distribution on Samsung devices with Samsung’s default-on Auto Blocker feature.
Auto Blocker is a setting that Samsung introduced on their mobile devices in October 2023 as an opt-in feature that disables the user’s ability to install apps from any sources other than the Google Play Store and the Samsung Galaxy Store.
