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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-...
Is the Google billing system that good or easy? 5% sounds outrageous, but I guess if they make it 1-click easy, will scoop up everyone who is not big enough to work with a real payment processor. 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.
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I'm hardly a fan of Epic, but considering inflation and rising supply chain costs, a price that remains flat may be a price that would have otherwise risen. They might also direct the money towards funding more exclusives. Epic's funding has enabled some games to be made that wouldn't have been otherwise, or that wouldn't have been as full featured without that up-front cash. They sell gambling to children via lootbo…
Sure but it's not just Epic. I've seen other services, ranging from Netflix to Spotify increase subscription prices. I don't disagree with your point about inflation, but we also can't really run the counterfactual, and I'm personally not inclined to give the benefit of the doubt here. As an aside we generally have some level of inflation and so while this argument may have been more convincing during a period of rap…
Design wise, they make some tradeoffs that somewhat benefit consumers so they get advocates
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Is the Google billing system that good or easy? 5% sounds outrageous, but I guess if they make it 1-click easy, will scoop up everyone who is not big enough to work with a real payment processor. 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.
Aren't credit cards like 3.5% if you don't have a deal with them? 5% doesn't seem so bad. I've heard of 2% before
We all know where that ends.
> Rather than take its standard 30 percent cut of in-app purchases through the Play Store, Google is lowering its cut to 20 percent > Third-party app stores will be able to apply to the company's new "Registered App Stores" program to see if they meet "certain quality and safety benchmarks." > users will still be able to sideload alternative app stores that aren't part of the program I'll wait to hear how the F-Droid…
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Sideloading without automatic updates is not very useful
That's one of the arguments for sideloading. I don't want to use your new liquid ass design.
Liquod ass design
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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-...
Is the Google billing system that good or easy? 5% sounds outrageous, but I guess if they make it 1-click easy, will scoop up everyone who is not big enough to work with a real payment processor. 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.