There's no reason for this to be the only solution. This doesn't have to be the only revenue channel for Google, or even the only revenue channel for an app st

There's no reason for this to be the only solution. This doesn't have to be the only revenue channel for Google, or even the only revenue channel for an app store, and even if it is the revenue channel for the app store, this doesn't have to be the method of making people use it. > Would it be nice if Google could add a subrule that links are allowed if they're at the very bottom of the page? Well how do you even define that, what if the page is a single sentence and then payment options? Or a rule that "donations" are allowed? Well then you get "donations" that come with "bonus functionality" and so forth, and a new line has to be drawn. You're leading yourself down a garden path here. To break even, an app store only needs to take in enough to cover its hosting and traffic costs. It doesn't have to take a cut of all transactions.