Google’s Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro launched to the public just over a week ago, but a controversy has been stirred up around benchmark apps having been blocked via the Play Store ahead of launch.

Samsung is once again in hot water over how it treats benchmark apps. This time, the company is accused of throttling 10,000 Android apps—but not benchmark apps. It sounds like the scheme OnePlus was ...

Samsung is purportedly throttling the performance of 10,000 apps on its phones. It’s believed that the company’s Game Optimizing Service app is to blame. Samsung has since confirmed the practice and ...

A new Samsung Korea FAQ has offered a comprehensive response regarding GOS. The company also clarified the reason for having a list of 10,000 apps. It also offered a disappointing explanation for ...

Google has reportedly blocked users from installing benchmark apps on their Pixel 8 and 8 Pro smartphones. This was uncovered by Sanjiv of Notebookcheck, who found that Google has prevented users from ...

Apple on Wednesday announced a developer-focused update. More specifically, App Analytics – a tool that’s part of App Store Connect – will now let developers use peer group benchmarks for metrics ...

Apple has added peer group benchmarks for developers using app analytics in their App Store offerings to let them compare performance to similar apps. It lets developers put their app's performance ...

Google kept some of the popular benchmarking apps blocked on the Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro until they became publicly available. It was an effort to avoid revealing hardware information prior ...

Popular benchmark app Geekbench confirmed it banned the Galaxy S22 series and other Samsung phones found to be cheating in benchmark apps. The action follows the discovery that a preloaded app on the ...