Samsung Could Face at Least $24 Million Fine for Galaxy S22 GOS Issues
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The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has deemed Samsung Electronics' Galaxy GOS advertisements to be deceptive and has announced a penalty of up to 64.4 billion won. The issue raised was the failure to disclose that CPU and GPU performance is forcibly limited to half levels when playing high-spec games. While Samsung claims this is for the purpose of heat management, the FTC views the omission of the performance limitation as a deceptive act that hin…
Samsung could face a massive fine in South Korea for slowing down some Galaxy devices.
Samsung could face at least $24 million fine for Galaxy S22 GOS issues
Samsung has been under the scanner of South Korea's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) for the past four years over the Game Optimization Service (GOS) issue affecting the Galaxy S22 and Galaxy Tab S8, and the company is now facing potential fines of at least $24 million. What is the GOS controversy related to the Galaxy […]
According to South Korean newspaper Chosun, citing investigators from the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), Samsung's smartphone advertising "game optimization" is a "serious violation" as the actual performance of the GPU and CPU is below 50%.
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