Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores

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By Ian Carlos CampbellMar 4, 2026, 2:12 pm85 ptsTrending
Google is officially doing away with its 30 percent cut of Play Store transactions, and rolling out changes to how third-party app stores and alternate billing systems will be handled by Android. Some of these tweaks were proposed as part of the settlement the company reached with Epic in November 2025, but…

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