Google has obliged all developers to switch to the company's payment system within a year and pay a 30% commission

Netflix and Spotify allow you to pay directly via card. But according to the company, 97% of developers already use their payment system.

Google has obliged all developers to switch to the company's payment system, which charges a 30% commission on payments, by September 30, 2021. This was reported on the company's blog.

According to the updated rules, developers will have to use Google's payment system instead of third-party ones to pay for in-app purchases. The company said that existing rules already required the use of Google's system for in-app purchases, but this was not forced. According to Google, over the past year, only less than 3% of apps made digital purchases—of those apps, almost 97% already use the company's payment system.

Google did not name apps that do not use the company's payment system for purchases. According to CNBC, Netflix and Spotify allow Android users to pay for in-app purchases directly through a credit card.

The company also promised to "make it easier" to use third-party app stores on Android 12.

Android has always allowed users to download apps from multiple stores [...] For example, Fortnite can be downloaded directly from the Epic store or from other stores including the Samsung Galaxy App store.

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on September 25 that Google will prohibit developers from accepting payments from users bypassing Google Play Bloomberg wrote . These rules are similar to Apple's, which faced criticism for charging a 30% commission:

• On August 13, Epic Games added direct payments for internal currency to Fortnite, bypassing Apple and Google payment systems. The company activated the feature without checking the moderators of the App Store and Google Play, and violated the rules of both sites. After this, Apple and Google removed Fortnite from their platforms, and Epic Games immediately sued both companies. On August 28, Apple removed the Fortnite developer account from the App Store;
• On September 24, Epic Games, Spotify and the owner of Tinder formed a coalition against Apple's rules.

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