Google Play service fee reduced to 15% for the first $1M/year
What&#x27;s also not being said here is that ~99% of apps on Google Play don&#x27;t make money this way either.<p>Due to a combination of Android user&#x27;s reluctance to spend money on apps at all and the rampant piracy that Android&#x27;s open model makes trivially easy, most developers only way to make money is through in-app advertising, which this change obviously makes no difference to.<p>Google Play is mostly a pyramid scheme. Developer&#x27;s can only make money from showing ads and at the same time can only get downloads if they place ads on other people&#x27;s apps. And Google just happens to own all the mobile ad companies.<p>This 15% cut ends up &quot;costing&quot; Google virtually nothing.<p>And as for Google &quot;helping developers build sustainable businesses&quot;, the only times they&#x27;ve ever reached out to me were to offer me the opportunity to have someone help me spend thousands of dollars a month on mobile ads. Never, for example, to actually take down all the scam apps that use my app&#x27;s name, icon and screenshots.