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Unless they've recently renegotiated, Google only gets 5% and the other 25% goes to the carrier. I'm not sure why the carriers in the counties where Play doesn

Unless they've recently renegotiated, Google only gets 5% and the other 25% goes to the carrier. I'm not sure why the carriers in the counties where Play doesn't support payments haven't been able to get Google to implement support though.

lokedhs 13y ago
That sounds very suspicious. Do you have a source for this? Remember that you don't even need a carrier to be able to use the app store. Who takes the 25% from the payments done from my wlan-only tablet?
- furyofantares 13y ago
  Here's a story about them trying to negotiate an increase in their cut with carriers in South Korea: http://www.androidauthority.com/google-share-play-store-android-app-revenue-236966/ http://www.androidauthority.com/google-share-play-store-andr... I don't know what happens for carrier-less devices. I had actually thought OEMs had a slice in the pie too but couldn't find any evidence of that as so didn't mention it earlier.
  - poopsintub 13y ago
    I would have to think South Korea is a whole different ball game.
    - lokedhs 13y ago
      Yes. In South Korea you can't just put a SIM card in a device and use it like you can in the rest of the world. The phones have to be activated with the carrier. I don't know of any other place where this happens.
Fuxy 13y ago
Let me get this straight. If i happen to purchase an app on goggle play and say I'm using my home wifi to install it since I value my bandwidth their still getting 25%? I get goggle making money but a carrier who doesn't do jack making money? In what world does that make sense?
- DominikR 13y ago
  It's not about bandwidth used, it's about the billing service (charging via the customers carrier contract) 25% is a low rate for that, carriers usually charge 40-60% of the total amount, which seems totally insane to me considering that a carrier has much lower fraud risks than some web service because they usually have established billing relationships with they customers. Edit: Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_payment#Direct_operator_billing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_payment#Direct_operator_...
  - Fuxy 13y ago
    Oh, that's really expensive. I guess it's ok for small amounts though but for large amounts 25% is way overkill. Credit/Debit cards incur a fixed charge of say (max) £1.50 so that would mean that if you're paying more than £6 you're better off with the card.

lokedhs 13y ago

That sounds very suspicious. Do you have a source for this? Remember that you don't even need a carrier to be able to use the app store. Who takes the 25% from the payments done from my wlan-only tablet?

furyofantares 13y ago
Here's a story about them trying to negotiate an increase in their cut with carriers in South Korea: http://www.androidauthority.com/google-share-play-store-android-app-revenue-236966/ http://www.androidauthority.com/google-share-play-store-andr... I don't know what happens for carrier-less devices. I had actually thought OEMs had a slice in the pie too but couldn't find any evidence of that as so didn't mention it earlier.
- poopsintub 13y ago
  I would have to think South Korea is a whole different ball game.
  - lokedhs 13y ago
    Yes. In South Korea you can't just put a SIM card in a device and use it like you can in the rest of the world. The phones have to be activated with the carrier. I don't know of any other place where this happens.

Fuxy 13y ago

Let me get this straight. If i happen to purchase an app on goggle play and say I'm using my home wifi to install it since I value my bandwidth their still getting 25%? I get goggle making money but a carrier who doesn't do jack making money? In what world does that make sense?

DominikR 13y ago
It's not about bandwidth used, it's about the billing service (charging via the customers carrier contract) 25% is a low rate for that, carriers usually charge 40-60% of the total amount, which seems totally insane to me considering that a carrier has much lower fraud risks than some web service because they usually have established billing relationships with they customers. Edit: Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_payment#Direct_operator_billing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_payment#Direct_operator_...
- Fuxy 13y ago
  Oh, that's really expensive. I guess it's ok for small amounts though but for large amounts 25% is way overkill. Credit/Debit cards incur a fixed charge of say (max) £1.50 so that would mean that if you're paying more than £6 you're better off with the card.