Google Play Store is planning to crackdown against developers that avoidGoogle’s policy of in-app purchases, reported Bloomberg last week.According to the report, the plan will be officially announced in thecoming weeks in the form of updated guidelines.
Following the announcement of the updated guidelines, developers will begiven some time to properly follow them before the crackdown starts.
Similar to Apple’s App Store, Google requires developers to give thecompany a cut of all their in-app purchases, which is why almost all appsare required to have in-app purchases and pay taxes to Google in order tostay on the platform. However, this system is not strictly applied to bignames such as Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, etc. They all have separate billingsystems that are different from Google’s own system.
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Google and Apple’s billing systems came under fire lately ever since theybarred Epic Games’ Fornite from entering their app stores as it refused topay a 30% share of all its in-app purchases. Epic Games, which is also apart of the new Coalition for App Fairness, decided to fight against thepolicies and practices of these stores regarding in-app purchases asnumerous other developers have been a victim to it as well.
