Google Matches Apple's Plan To Give Developers A Bigger Cut of The Revenue (recode.net)

An anonymous reader writes from a report via Recode: Apple announced a new revenue sharing model on Wednesday that would give developers more money when users subscribe to a service via their apps. Instead of keeping 70 percent of all revenue generated from subscriptions, publishers will be able to keep 85 percent of revenue, once a subscriber has been paying for a year. Google has decided to match Apple's latest offering. It too will move from a 70/30 split to a 85/15 split for subscriptions. However, instead of requiring developers to hook a subscriber for 12 months before offering the better split, it will make it available right away. Sources have said Google has been testing the new model over a year ago with video services in a way to get Play subscriptions to work with its TV streaming offerings like the Chromecast. Google has yet to announce when their new pricing plan will roll out. In other Google and Apple related news, Google's AI 'TensorFlow' software is coming to iOS to allow the iPhone to be able to run more sophisticated apps.

Comments

Anti-competitive agreements?

[Anonymous Coward]

It seems brain-dead obvious that there must be some coordination involved, no? That of two major companies, they happen to change the exact same thing at nearly the exact same moment? If they even went to an 86/14, it would look less like a back room deal going on.

85% of fuck all

[Big Hairy Ian]

So Android devs now get to keep 85% of fuck all because hardly anyone using Andriod actually pays for their apps