Google has extended third-party payments to India – Quote – TMT Law Practice
Mr. Abhishek Malhotra Managing Partner TMT Law Practice said
“In the context of the growth of a digital single market system in the EU, and focused scrutiny of antitrust regulators, the prominent publishers for iOS and Android respectively have been facing a lot of heat. Google has piloted not just enabling third-party payment interactions, but also has moved to slash the amount that will be charged as a fee for such transactions. This will come as a boost to the small to mid sized developers, who can now bring about more in-app “paid” features to the fore. This is certainly a victory for app developers who have been raising anti-competitive concerns against google in view of its previous practices of disallowing third party apps for payments and necessitating the routing of such payments via Google playstore.”