Re:Donation page "not compliant with Google Play Policies"
by pydry on Saturday April 10, 2021 @01:14PM
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No, he doesn't. He gets donated cups of coffee for an app he developed and gave out for free and which makes the app store a more valuable platform.
It's only profit if you discount the value of his labor to zero.
Google is demanding that every time somebody wants to gift him a cup of coffee to say thank you for giving away something of value for free that they get a cash payment.
This isn't about Google just being rich, it's about Google using their power to extract profit from charity simply because they are economically more powerful.
If he'd complained that 30% is too large of a share, I would be fully on his side. This is unreasonable and I've made that point in the past. But the general principle of getting a share is very reasonable and, just because Google could afford to give him money, they have no moral obligations to do so and change the rules for him because they're so "rich".