36 US states sue Google for “eating thick” on Play Store

Tram Ho

On Wednesday, a coalition of attorneys general (who serves as the head of a state) joined forces to file a lawsuit against Google, accusing the search giant of controlling the online mobile app store. Play Store.

The lawsuit was filed by 36 states and Washington DC to the Supreme Court in California on July 7. This 144-page lawsuit targets Google’s policy of taking 30% of commissions with app developers on the Play Store.

Google has explained that this fee is to support more transactions with potential but less well-known apps.

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The Play Store charges a 30% fee on all transactions and forces apps not to use external payment channels.

Last August, developer Epic Games also filed a lawsuit against Google in a similar incident, alleging expensive commissions. Epic also filed a lawsuit against Apple’s App Store at the same time.

This latest lawsuit has put a lot of pressure on Google as the search giant is facing three antitrust lawsuits at the federal level, including one that the US Justice Department accused Google of monopolizing monopoly. search advertising.

In fact, Android poses less of a monopoly threat than Apple’s iOS as it’s fairly open and doesn’t require the Google Play Store to be installed. However, pressure on Apple has caused Google to be infected.

During a recent hearing, lawmakers questioned the possibility that Apple and Google could set the default app marketplace on phones and expand to certain other apps. Under pressure, Google along with Apple had to reduce fees to 15% for small developers, but keep the mark 30% for most developers.

Google has not yet commented on the lawsuit.

According to TheVerge

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Source : Genk