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worse title I've seen in a while
Soviet level of journalism... “Did you hear? On Red Square they’re giving away cars.” “Not quite. First, it’s not on Red Square but on Dzerzhinsky Square. Second, they’re not cars but bicycles. And third, they’re not giving them away, they’re stealing them.”
"Welcomes" is a very strong word in this context. Google was somewhat forced to do this, not really something they would do if not from pressure by EU, lawsuits, Epic and others. Also, the fee is reduced to 20 or 15 percent, not fully gone. This almost reads like a sponsored article written by Google themselves.
I believe the fee is only 20% if you use a third party billing system. If one uses Google to process the payments the fee would be 25% (20% service fee + 5% billing fee) [1]. [1] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/a-new-era-...
I guess the question, what does an Amazon, Spotify, Uber, etc pay on the platform vs the 99% of businesses which are not a household name.
The article is confusingly worded. I think Google's announcement is more clear [1]. My read is: * Developers using Google to process payments should expect to go from a 30% fee to a 25% fee (20% service fee + 5% billing fee). * Subscriptions will now have a 15% fee (10% service fee + 5% billing fee) * Some Third Party App Stores will be easier to install [1] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/a-new-era…
There's a lot of added complexity because of the Ugh
Why are people thanking Google? That’s like another slap on the face of Epic who burned through their millions to put a (soft) end to Google and Apple’s dominance. They still get to keep a significant cut.
Epic still deserves all the slaps it gets. They didn't do it for the good of the people. They just want to abuse their own position more efficiently.
I only trust this once they have finally detailed how they will allow "easy sideloading" (See one of the last fdroid news on this, currently google is on track to basically ban sideloading as it exists) and what exactly means "registered app store program".
Sideloading without automatic updates is not very useful
Why are people thanking Google? That’s like another slap on the face of Epic who burned through their millions to put a (soft) end to Google and Apple’s dominance. They still get to keep a significant cut.
Google gets a 0% cut on Fortnite purchases in this new model.
This is kind of a misleading title. While they "ended" the 30-percent cut, they are keeping a 20-percent cut.
> For any developers interested in offering their own app store, Google says it'll launch its Registered App Stores program "with a version of a major Android release" before the end of the year. According to the company, the program will be available in other regions first before it comes to the US. From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37843650 : > What's a ballpark figure for what the monthly cost to Fdroid wo…
F-Droid build APKs themselves from source, so presumably 0, as they don't allow APKs to be uploaded. F-Droid does do some safety checks themselves already too, I don't know exactly what. Edit: Perhaps I am mistaken... but I think the linked post was referring to users adding additional repos to the F-Droid store, not the default F-Droid repo??
It would be good to scan the sources with SAST and DAST and scan the APKs once they're built too.
This is kind of a misleading title. While they "ended" the 30-percent cut, they are keeping a 20-percent cut.
That kind of is an understatement