Google tried to quash Samsung Galaxy Store, lawsuit alleges

Google utilized anticompetitive practices trying to “preemptively suppress” Samsung’s Galaxy Store, and prevent it from becoming a suitable contender to its own Play Store. That is as indicated by an antitrust claim documented by an alliance of three dozen state attorney general, which blames Google for wrongfully endeavoring to control application distribution on Android. The suit additionally charges Google paid off application developers to stop them going around its store.

The charges challenge one of Google’s center defenses of its policies, which is that not normal for Apple’s iOS rules, Android permits both contending application stores and side-loading applications straightforwardly. The claim is successfully asserting that this receptiveness is a facade, on the grounds that while clients in fact have the decision of where to get their applications from, Google’s strategic policies have forestalled a suitable application store competitor from emerging.

Also, to invalidate Samsung’s store straightforwardly, the lawyers general claim that Google worked with application developers to urge them not to distribute their applications outside of the Play Store, adequately paying them while forcing limitations about how they circulate their applications. In a vigorously redacted part of the filing, the AGs contend that quite a bit of Google’s reaction came “as an immediate outcome” of Epic Games deciding to distribute Fortnite outside of the Google Play Store.

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