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Google to pay $700M and make tiny app store changes to settle with 50 states
- dr_kiszonka 3y ago$629,000,000/ 140,000,000 Android users in the US (approximately) = $4.5/user. This is before taxes and legal fees.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 3y agoLegal fees still need to be subtracted from that 629? I thought the 1M covered the fees
- dr_kiszonka 3y agoIf I am understanding the article correctly, the 1M is for admin costs.
- latexr 3y agoTo put the number in the title in context (quote from the article): > $700,000,000 from Google in total (roughly 21 days of Google’s operating profit from the app store alone)
- captaindiego 3y agoI like the changes, but the time limit seems crazy. The jury ruled there was harm to consumers, but in 4-5 years we are okay with them going back to business as usual or worse? (If this somehow doesn't get delayed forever via appeal)
- musicale 3y agoAs I understand it, Apple still charged a 27% commission after they were ordered to allow alternative payment systems. The commission has little to do with payment systems, and everything to do with platform fees - which is to say, enabling the platform/app store owner to collect money from sales of paid apps (mostly games) as well as "free" apps (mostly games) with paid IAP/DLC.
- redder23 3y agoFor 4-6 years WTF is this? So after that they just continue as they always did? These limits are stupid.