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954 Google Starts Lowering Play Store Fees, Making Good On Epic Games Settlement

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/25/2026 11:00 EDT

Google Starts Lowering Play Store Fees, Making Good On Epic Games Settlement

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google spent the last few years locked in a legal grudge match with Epic Games, which claimed that Google's stewardship of the Play Store was anticompetitive. Now, the companies are thick as thieves, and Google is beginning to implement app store changes as agreed in its settlement with Epic. The lower developer fees and new payment options that Google promised are rolling out in select markets this month before expanding. [...] Starting on June 30, dev

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