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Not quite, or it might have changed, but when the Play Store started there was a good deal of confusion about who the merchant of sale was. This is one of the e
by fidotron 13y ago
Not quite, or it might have changed, but when the Play Store started there was a good deal of confusion about who the merchant of sale was. This is one of the excuses they used to have for why developers got such a frightening amount of information about anyone buying stuff from them.
- dangrossman 13y agoI can't imagine how they get away with that if so. The answer to all the relevant questions (where do people go to buy apps? who do they give their credit card to? what merchant actually charges their card? who handles refunds? who holds the copy of the product before it's transferred to the buyer? who delivers the product?) is all Google/Apple, not the developer. This is as if a B&M store like Staples decided Intuit was responsible for tallying its own sales tax whenever the store sold a copy of Quickbooks.
- fidotron 13y agoiirc, and my memory is hazy, it was to do with them reusing Google Checkout. The result was a mismatch between what would make sense were you running an online store of physical items and what you want to run a store of digital goods.