Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue
They dropped in-app subscriptions on Android as well in May 2018. But why?<p>Unless I’m mistaken, the Google Play Developer Policy allows you to use a different payments provider, such as Stripe, in a case like Netflix or Spotify’s:<p>> Developers […] must use Google Play In-app Billing as the method of payment, except for the following cases: […] Payment is for digital content that may be consumed outside of the app itself […]<p>Source: <a href="https://play.google.com/intl/en/about/monetization-ads/" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/intl/en/about/monetization-ads/</a><p>At least in the past, Skype has been doing exactly that, for example.