Epic v. Google: everything we learned in Fortnite court
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We just saw the email where OnePlus’ Eric Gass blames Google, but... it sounds like what Google was blocking was a hacky workaround?
Gass wrote: “Apparently at the final stage-gate of software testing before MP release, Google is blocking our Game Space silent install solution bypass of the stop trusting unknown sources.”
Neither Epic nor Google has suggested it was a workaround yet, nor have we seen OnePlus’ subsequent explanation for why Google might have blocked it.
Stolfus tells Epic’s attorney that Google “didn’t want the ability for a store ultimately to be preinstalled and bypass the installation restrictions that exist if you sideload an app.”
LG, too, blamed Google. “They let us know that Google was preventing them from moving forward with the installation of an app that could install other apps,” says Stolfus.
Verizon, too. “We were led to believe by their partner Digital Turbine that it was related to Google,” he says.
