• stardust@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Are you saying Amazon app store sideloaded on Android or Galaxy store was required to pay Google 30%? I was under the impression that only applied to apps on the Google Play store.

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      7 months ago

      That’s exactly what I’m saying. I’m not sure about the Galaxy store though, as it’s only available on their own hardware.

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        7 months ago

        Why when the Amazon app store is a third party installed apk. Can you find a me a source that Google takes a cut of the Apps sold through the Amazon app store, since I’ve been having trouble finding a source.

        I only come across articles on Amazon app’s dev revenue cut https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/17/amazons-appstore-lowers-its-cut-of-developer-revenue-for-small-businesses-adds-aws-credits/

        Or examples of how Amazon gets around Google taking a cut of digital sales by blocking it from the Google Play version, but making it possible on Amazon provided apk

        https://www.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/v3skd9/how_to_buy_books_from_kindle_on_android/

        Based on this it seems like Android has already had the ability for independent app stores to be run that don’t need to pay Google a cut of sales for years.

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          7 months ago

          Yes, third party app stores were a pain for a long time, until Google allowed other stores to update apps unattended. A user having to comfirm each individual update was a terrible user experience.

          Google and other pre-installed app stores circumvented the issue by being installed with system privileges to install any app unattended.

          Any third-party store who’d want to do the same would either have to pay other manufacturers to be pre-installed, or require their users to root their phone. Or they were annoyed by updates and use the Play Store instead.