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Australia starts second fight with Google, this time over whether app stores leak data, gouge devs, steal ideas and warp markets

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Re: Depends on developer

tiggity,

I strongly suspect this is one of the reasons that Apple and Google will lose this battle with competition regulators. It's suspicious that they both charge the same amount. But in an even bigger sign that they're charging monopoly rates and have market domination - even the big boys don't get discounts. There's no negotiation for volume, which is incredibly unusual.

They're less severe on bigger companies having control of accounts though, because they know they'd get slaughtered. So Microsoft Office have an app, but they don't get 30% of all the subscription income - and MS aren't forced to do that by in-app purchase either.

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