Wednesday, 17 May 2023

Google to start enforcing Play billing policy in India, claims less than 60 developers will pay service fee of over 15%

Google claimed on May 17 that less than 60 of over 200,000 Indian developers on Google Play could be paying a service fee of more than 15 percent, in an attempt to indicate the minimal impact of the app marketplace’s contentious new payment policy on app developers in the country, as the company gears up to enforce it here.

This move comes amid an ongoing standoff with several local developers who have sought the suspension of this policy, claiming it is in violation of CCI's October 2022 antitrust order. On May 12, CCI stated that it needed to inquire whether the policy complies with the antitrust watchdog's earlier directives. The case is set to come up for hearing again next month.

In a blogpost on May 17, Google however claims that its updated payment policy is compliant with CCI's order that had directed the tech major not to restrict app developers from using a third-party billing system among other things.

"In 2020, we clarified the requirements of our Payments policy and developers in India have had considerable time to make the necessary changes to their apps. We are respectfully following the CCI’s October 2022 order, and in compliance with that order, we expanded user choice billing to all developers in India and updated our policy that went into effect starting April 26, 2023" the company stated in a blogpost.

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