You may recall that Apple recently made a historic decision and allowed the use of alternative payment methods for the first time. An unexpected move came from the Play Store, Apple’s biggest competitor to the App Store.

google, To comply with European Union technology regulations announced its new decisions. The new changes include a number of changes, such as lowering application developer fees and allowing the use of competing payment systems.

Developer costs are reduced from 15 percent to 12 percent

Alternative payment methods and developer fees have been a source of headaches for both Google and Apple for a while now. In fact, Apple was sued with Epic Games for this reason, and both giants persisted in this regard. However, it seems that Google has managed to break through this stubbornness a bit. With these new decisions from Google, the compensation received from developers outside of the game from 15% to 12% is decided.

These decisions, made to comply with European Union technology laws, are also: use competitive payment methods in sales. also allows. Of course, according to EU law, Google gets a percentage of their worldwide turnover for this. up to 10 fines they have to pay.

Google has made this decision. “This means that developers of non-game apps can offer their users in the EEA an alternative to Google Play’s billing system when paying for digital content and services.” explained in his words. The new regulation is only for users of the European Economic Area (EEA). These countries include 27 EU Member States, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Turkey is not in this group.