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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Warns Android Users Not to Sideload Apps (www.gizmochina.com)
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[โ€“] theherk@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If neither Google nor Apple took such a massive rake on the payments, fewer people would take issue with the main app distribution implementations. They have valid reasons for trying to keep you in their ecosystem, but those are severely undercut by taking such a huge percentage.

[โ€“] interceder270@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

What is it, 30%? That's pretty standard.