Google tried to kill Samsung Galaxy Store as it’s emerging as a Play Store alternative

Samsung ships every device including phones and tablets with Galaxy Store, its native app store, also an alternative option of the famous Google Play Store. Along with all the applications of the One UI ecosystem, the Galaxy Store also lets users download some exclusive third-party games such as Fortnite.

As the Korean tech giant taking big decisions in order to maintain the crown of the global smartphone market, it has impressively developed the Galaxy Store and it’s now known as the major rival to Play Store. Following the growing popularity, Google reportedly tried to kill Samsung’s Galaxy Store.

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According to the info (via TheVerge), an alliance of 36 states’ attorney generals filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google,  citing that the US tech giant is illegally attempting to control app and game distribution on Android by paying off popular app developers to stop them from listing their apps on Galaxy Store and Amazon Appstore.

Aside from this, the lawsuit also reveals that Google illegally prevented Samsung’s Galaxy Store from becoming a viable competitor. To do that, the search engine giant used revenue share agreements with Android phone makers to not bring custom app stores other than Play Store. And that it made “a direct attempt to pay Samsung to abandon relationships with top developers and scale back competition through the Samsung Galaxy Store.”

“Google felt deeply threatened when Samsung began to revamp its own app store, the Samsung Galaxy Store,” the suit says, and describes Google’s approach to the competing store as “a threat it needed to preemptively quash.”

The blog also reported that Epic Games made the same allegations that Google has attempted to destroy rival app distribution methods in its lawsuit. It claimed Google forced OnePlus to abandon a deal to preload a special Fortnite launcher on its phones, and prevented LG from pre-installing the Epic Games app on its devices.

Stay tuned with us, we will keep you posted on what happens next.