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> they're hoping that this will stop some app developers from demanding the right to use third party payment processors

I thought you could do that for apps through the Play store. For example I pay for the Windy app through Paypal.




This is actually somewhere Google has generally been more accepting than Apple. While Apple has been very harsh on both the app purchase and any in-app content or services being through them, Google has been more lenient, historically, on the latter.

Google has actually changed their minds on that, and will start being Apple-level strict in September of this year: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/google-announces-cra...


I believe Games is the one exception - Games must use the Play Store for all in-app purchases.




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