{"id":41374,"date":"2021-10-21T13:58:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T20:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41374"},"modified":"2021-10-21T16:59:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T23:59:03","slug":"google-cutting-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41374","title":{"rendered":"GOOGLE CUTTING FEES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Google is planning to lower fees it charges subscription services on its app store amid criticism from developers and lawmakers,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/gtmnsjwqmccdfjfcdkrmmdnnmwdpcwchhtmqjlpcgycrmg_xpddrrhvhtdbhpsrbbjc.html?a=&amp;b=43576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/gtmnsjwqmccdfjfcdkrmmdnnmwdpcwchhtmqjlpcgycrmg_xpddrrhvhtdbhpsrbbjc.html?a%3D%26b%3D43576&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1634943250416000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFi_lt1osCEaWsBu1FPYe0doQg-iw\">Bloomberg News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The company announced Thursday that starting Jan. 1, its Play Store will charge third-party app developers a 15 percent commission.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Apps that aren\u2019t subscription based will still have to share 30 percent of their revenue, but it will drop to 15 percent for the first $1 million in revenue.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Google previously charged subscription apps a 30 percent commission for the first year, then 15 percent afterward.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The update comes as critics argue Google&#8217;s and fellow competitor Apple\u2019s app stores have grown too powerful, causing developers to abide by the restrictive rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is planning to lower fees&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41375,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41374\/revisions\/41375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}