That does not appear to entirely be the case. Samsung did not allow one app - Hornet - in it's own store. Buzzfeed contacted other LGBT app developers and none of them had tried to get their App on there. The Buzzfeed article I read said nothing about Samsung telling Google anything.
But Google Play removed the most popular gay dating app in South
Korea, Jack’d, a few years ago, according to LGBT activists in Seoul.
Google deleted the app apparently without notifying its developer.
Jack’d’s lead account manager for Asia, Noah Staum, seemed surprised
when asked about the delisting by BuzzFeed News, saying that Jack’d has
more than 500,000 users in the country. They presumably are getting it
by using a VPN that makes it appear as if their phone is in another
country; instructions for doing this in Korean are easily found online.
Staum
also said it was one of the only countries where they have more users
on Android phones than on Apple’s iOS even though Jack’d — and every
other gay hookup app searched for by BuzzFeed News — is available in its
app store in South Korea.
Most Samsung smartphone users — like all users of Android phones — get
their apps through Google Play, where apps including Hornet, Grindr, and
Scruff are listed even in South Korea.
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