Google isn’t waiting for a settlement — the 30 percent Android app store fee is dead
In November, Epic and Google jointly proposed a settlement that would change Android's fate globally without cracking open Google's Android monopoly quite the way it otherwise might. Today, Google has decided it's not waiting for that settlement to be approved: it's moving forward with many of its proposed changes right now.
By June 30th, Google writes, it will lower its app store fees in the US, UK, and European Economic Area to 20 percent in some cases, down from 30 percent. By the end of the year, it will launch a "Registered App Stores" program outside of the US, and it will let app developers offer their own billing systems "alongside …