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We’re looking at an email chain from late August 2013, where Google Play head Jamie Rosenberg is telling his subordinate Kochikar that he doesn’t want it public that Google would “pay” partners to use its billing system, among other things.
Later in the email:
I would rather tell WSJ that we *can’t* put this in writing exactly because we are doing something for them that we would NOT make available to all partners. Again, I’m happy to deliver that message to the highest levels. We have a large and sweeping partnership with NewsCorp on may fronts and we would not disrupt that partnership by falling down on our promises.
The context was a deal with News Corp for The Wall Street Journal to integrate Google’s subscription billing services at a 30 percent rev share, it seems.
Google Plus integration was another thing Google would apparently “pay” for at the time.
Correction: 2013, not 2023. I typo’d.
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