I don't think they mean an annual subscription. I assume they mean taking a larger share of the purchase price of apps, in-app purchases, and maybe even ad reve

I don't think they mean an annual subscription. I assume they mean taking a larger share of the purchase price of apps, in-app purchases, and maybe even ad revenue. In the 12 months prior to June, developers earned $5bln for these things (Apple paid out north of $7.5bln in the same period) [1]. Google used to give developers 70% of app purchase revenue, give carriers 25%, and keep only 5% for themselves. A year or so ago they moved to keeping almost all of the non-developer pie. That pie is closer to $2bln than $38mln. But if they're going to take more, the only place left to take it from is developers. I can't believe that's going to go over well for them, but I already can't believe carriers rolled over so easily despite giving Google things it really needed, like carrier billing for app purchases. [1] http://www.beyonddevic.es/2014/06/25/what-we-learned-about-googles-app-revenue/ http://www.beyonddevic.es/2014/06/25/what-we-learned-about-g...