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Re:Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing by rusk on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @05:36PM (#30783751)
> let's focus on lowering that percent

A noble position but it seems to have been going other way unfortunately. Not sure how you would do that … further regulation or introducing artificial competition in the market. I think the most pro-business approach is to quash the monopoly and open up the market.

Re:Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing by enos_feedler on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @06:25PM (#30784335)
Going the other way? The fee started at 30% and has only gone down from there (ex. 15% for subs active > 1 yr). I believe the fees will fragment further and give developers the option of paying less but receiving less too. For example: You can pay 5% less but you will only show up in app store search results. Or something to this effect. We will never get blanket 30% take rates again. It was a simplification when the market was early