Google isn’t waiting for a settlement — the 30 percent Android app store fee is dead

In November, Epic and Google jointly projected a colony that would alteration Android's destiny globally without cracking unfastened Google's Android monopoly rather the mode it different might. Today, Google has decided it's not waiting for that colony to beryllium approved: it's moving guardant with galore of its projected changes close now.

By June 30th, Google writes, it volition little its app store fees successful the US, UK, and European Economic Area to 20 percent successful immoderate cases, down from 30 percent. By the extremity of the year, it volition motorboat a "Registered App Stores" programme extracurricular of the US, and it volition fto app developers connection their ain billing systems "alongside …

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