Alphabet agrees to pay £260M to settle a UK class action lawsuit claiming it levied "unfair" charges on software downloaded from the Google Play app store
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App store economics are being repriced in court, not just in policy debates. If your margin stack assumes 30% distribution fees are durable, start modeling scenarios where that take rate compresses or fragments by region.
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