Epic games He is known to have filed lawsuits against many companies, especially Apple and Google. Epic, which last sued Google four years ago and won this case last month, is going to court again. This time is the company’s goal Googling together with Samsung is also included.

The subject of the new case is the feature that is active as standard in Samsung’s new smartphones. “Automatic blocking” It was a feature. When this feature is enabled, you can only connect to smartphones. “from authorized sources” Downloading applications is allowed. In this case too only in Google or Samsung stores The application can be downloaded.

Epic Games Store confused things

Epic Games didn’t have its own app store when it filed the lawsuit four years ago, but on August 16 Epic games storeIt was launched globally for Android devices and in EU countries for Apple devices. Epic claims that downloading from their store has been made much more difficult. According to the company’s claim, the automatic blocking function is active 21 steps The download process takes place when the feature is disabled. in just 4 steps is completed. Epic Games claims that this situation is causing users to give up.

Automatic blocking function when download fails Does not indicate how to close And the fact that it causes some difficulty for users to disable this feature is one of the criticisms of Samsung.

Epic CEO Tim Sweeneydoes not hesitate to say that there is no evidence of cooperation between Samsung and Google yet. However, he states that the purpose of this feature is to prevent competition, not malware. Epic Games and Samsung “authoritative source” It is also said that they could not agree on Epic’s status and whitelisting.

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