Google has postponed the introduction of a 30% commission in the Play Store for India until 2022

Google has announced that it will not introduce a mandatory 30% commission on in-game purchases in the Play Store for India until 2022. This happened after local companies merged to create their own store without deductions.The new Play Store rules will come into force in September next year, obliging developers to pay 30% from each transaction within applications.

Thus, companies will no longer be able to use third-party payment systems for this.

However, for India, the deadline will be extended until March 31, 2022. Purnima Kochikar, director of the Google Play Applications and games department, said that Google will hold talks with leading Indian startups to better understand the reason for their dissatisfaction.

At the same time, Kochikar noted that Google still stands for the freedom of distribution of applications: “We have always said that developers should have a choice in the distribution of their applications, and stores should compete in the interests of buyers and developers.”

India is Google’s largest market in terms of the number of users, but the profitability of the region is small compared to Western countries.

Last week, more than 150 Indian companies joined together to create their own store. In addition to the commission, local developers are dissatisfied with the new rules regarding gambling applications and Google’s monopoly on the smartphone market (the share of Android devices in the country is 99%).

Paytm has already taken the first step in the fight against Google by launching its mini-store. It is open to all developers, and the only commission you will have to pay will be 2% of credit card transactions. Now more than 300 companies are already represented in it, including the local taxi ordering application Ola and the music streaming service Gaana.

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