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At Some Point In Time, Google Tried To Kill Samsung’s Galaxy Store By Tyler Lee, on 07/09/2021 18:16 PDT
If you wanted to download apps onto an Android handset, there’s a good chance that you almost always default to the Google Play Store, but see, that’s one of the beauties of Android and that is if you don’t want to use Google, you can always turn to alternatives. In fact, companies like Samsung actually bundle their own app store, the Galaxy Store, on their phones.
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It seems that at some point in time, Google actually felt threatened by all these third-party stores that they attempted to have them “killed”. This is according to an antitrust lawsuit filed against Google in which according to the lawsuit, Google apparently tried to pay popular app developers not to list their apps on the Samsung Galaxy Store or Amazon’s Appstore.