The settlement is said to pay $630 million to customers and $70 million to provincial governments. It has been reported that google is going to spend $700 million to settle a lawsuit against google Play Store's dominance in the Android App Store market. Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., is said to be paying the amount to customers and lawyers in all 50 US states who are suing Placeroad. This amount is to be paid to customers and provincial governments.
By 2021, the U.S. The State Attorney General alleged that developers are forced to use the google Play Store to reach users for their apps and that google uses tactics to prevent competitors from emerging to ensure this. google is paying $700 million to settle antitrust charges over Play Store.
It has also been alleged that google takes up to 30% of Play Store payments. google was also accused of raising the prices of Android apps used by nearly 21 million users. In this case, Alphabet is planning to settle the case by paying $700 million to the opposing party. Of the settlement, $630 million is said to be paid to consumers and $70 million to provincial governments.
It's also worth noting that the settlement allows developers to use an alternative billing system and ease side loading on Android. This will reduce the commission given by developers on payments by 4 percent. Similarly, last year, google paid $90 million to small app developers and they continued to settle lawsuits.
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