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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google spent the last few years locked in a legal grudge match with Epic Games, which claimed that Google's stewardship of the Play Store was anticompetitive. Now, the companies are thick as thieves, and Google is beginning to implement app store changes as agreed in its settlement with Epic. The lower developer fees and new payment options that Google promised are rolling out in select markets this month before expanding. [...] Starting on June 30, developers in Europe, the UK, and the US will have access to the new fee structure. This system will split the commission into two components: billing and service fees.
The biggest win for small developers is the new flat 10 percent service fee for the first $1 million in earnings every year. Above that, the rate for various transaction types may reach 25 percent on existing installs. Apps installed after June 30 will top out at 20 percent. Developers will finally be allowed to send users outside the Play Store to complete a transaction, too. Google says they can design a choice screen "in accordance with our UX guidelines" to direct users to these external options. Devs pay the standard service fee on these purchases, but they'll avoid the billing fee. All transactions that run through Google's Play Store platform add a 5 percent billing fee -- even the base rate for publishers earning less than $1 million. Google notes that the billing fee is set at 5 percent in the initial markets, but it could be different in other regions. Google will expand the new fee structure globally through September 2027, while also offering reduced fees through updated developer programs.
Although the changes may let developers retain more revenue, Google will continue controlling Android distribution and collecting a share of sales as it works toward allowing certified third-party app stores to operate more like the Play Store.
The biggest win for small developers is the new flat 10 percent service fee for the first $1 million in earnings every year. Above that, the rate for various transaction types may reach 25 percent on existing installs. Apps installed after June 30 will top out at 20 percent. Developers will finally be allowed to send users outside the Play Store to complete a transaction, too. Google says they can design a choice screen "in accordance with our UX guidelines" to direct users to these external options. Devs pay the standard service fee on these purchases, but they'll avoid the billing fee. All transactions that run through Google's Play Store platform add a 5 percent billing fee -- even the base rate for publishers earning less than $1 million. Google notes that the billing fee is set at 5 percent in the initial markets, but it could be different in other regions. Google will expand the new fee structure globally through September 2027, while also offering reduced fees through updated developer programs.
Although the changes may let developers retain more revenue, Google will continue controlling Android distribution and collecting a share of sales as it works toward allowing certified third-party app stores to operate more like the Play Store.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Former employee files complaint accusing company of âcoercive surveillanceâ and first amendment violation
The Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams is suing the tech company over its efforts to âsilenceâ her.
A 57-page complaint filed to a US district court in California on Thursday argues that an interim arbitration ruling sought by Meta preventing Wynn-Williams from publicising her memoir, Careless People, was âimproper and unlawfulâ and a âblatant violation of the first amendmentâ. It also accuses the company of âcoercive surveillanceâ.
Continue reading...Accuser declines to testify in fourth trial after May mistrial with prosecutors citing her âextraordinarily taxing ordealâ
Manhattan prosecutors on Thursday moved to drop a third-degree rape â charge against Harvey Weinstein after the woman accusing the disgraced movie mogul of assaulting her said she did not want to testify in â what would have â been âa fourth trial.
Weinsteinâs third trial in New York state court over an allegation that he raped â aspiring actress Jessica Mann ended in a mistrial in May after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict.
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Grote, verlichte letters voor de deur en een gigantische opblaasvoetbal op het dak: het huis van de 20-jarige Britt in Bergschenhoek staat helemaal in het teken van het WK voetbal. Niet alleen van buiten, maar ook van binnen. Daar maken honderden oranje vlaggetjes, ballonnen, tv-schermen en een DJ-booth onderdeel uit van het interieur.
CATIA LA MAR (ANP/AFP) - In de zwaar door de aardbevingen getroffen Venezolaanse kustprovincie La Guaira zijn plunderingen. In de badplaats Catia La Mar zouden zwaar beschadigde winkels worden geplunderd.
Volgens lokale media is de schade enorm in de streek aan de kust die moeilijk bereikbaar is door de bevingen. De telefoonverbinding en elektriciteit zouden zijn uitgevallen.
Plunderaars zouden ook op zoek naar voedsel zijn. Een team van het Franse persbureau AFP zag in Catia La Mar dat talrijke mensen een supermarkt plunderden en deels in brand staken.
De Venezolaanse regering zei eerder op de dag dat er nog geen gegevens binnen waren over schade en slachtoffers uit La Guaira. Dit zou de zwaarst getroffen deelstaat zijn.
De rechtbank Noord-Holland wil dat de Hoge Raad een van zijn eigen rechters ontslaat. Rechters worden voor het leven benoemd, ontslag is zeldzaam
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Poorly Drawn Lines is an ongoing comic by Reza Farazmand starring bird, snail, mouse, turtle and others. Its strips revolve around gentle absurdity and dialogue-based humour. There are books for sale, as might be expected of a long-running webcomic. But also a ten episode animated series (less expected).
Its archives go back to 2011, but it doesn't settle into its current form until about 2019. There's not much in the way of continuity, but if you're the sort that likes to read things in order, I'd recommend starting there. Or you can read it backwards from the most recent strip like a normal person. Also available on bluesky.
Its archives go back to 2011, but it doesn't settle into its current form until about 2019. There's not much in the way of continuity, but if you're the sort that likes to read things in order, I'd recommend starting there. Or you can read it backwards from the most recent strip like a normal person. Also available on bluesky.