Google’s new rules for the app store will allow alternative billing next week
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While the court still hasn’t signed off on the massive settlement resolving Epic’s antitrust lawsuit against Google for having a monopoly over Android’s app store with Google Play, the tech giant says it will start rolling out changes to the way it handles billing for developers worldwide. As announced in March, the flat 30 percent billing fee is being replaced by “lower, decoupled fees” that partially decouple the billing and the app store.
How much of a cut Google will take from transactions now dependson whether it’s for a user whose first install came before or after the new structure, how much a developer has earned, and whether or not the developer uses Google Play’s billing system with its 5 percent...
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