“Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games on Monday accused Alphabet’s Google and Samsung, the world’s largest Android phone maker, of conspiring to protect Google’s Play Store from competition.
Epic has filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court in California, alleging that a Samsung mobile security feature called Auto Blocker was intended to prevent users from downloading apps from sources other than the Play Store or Samsung’s Galaxy Store , which the Korean company chose to place on the back burner.
Samsung and Google are violating US antitrust law by limiting consumer choice and preventing competition that would make apps cheaper, according to the US Epic, which is backed by China’s Tencent.
