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Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores

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Re: Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores

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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.

Who cares, this is how the American justice system works. AFAIK - only DAs and govt (sometimes) look out for people’s interests, and the occasional class action lawsuits. Many civil liberties cases were one black man or black woman, or a woman, fighting against some company/establishment/govt and that ended up benefiting all others (equal rights, right to vote, right to abortion, etc).

In this case, all other businesses get the same terms as Epic. In my eyes that’s a win, better than the system that existed before.

Re: Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The majority of which is going directly to Visa, Amex, Mastercard.

Nah, credit card fees are like 1.5 to 3.5%.

Interchange is $0.35. On small transactions, that eats up a lot.
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