Epic v. Google: everything we learned in Fortnite court
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Tadelis doesn’t think much of Google’s argument that most devs pay less than 30 percent.
“Most of the value of the charges happen at 30 percent, not a 15 percent.”
“If the developer that’s charged 30 percent is selling a million dollars of product and the developer charged 15 percent is selling $1 of product,” then the fee is closer to 30 percent on average, he says.
(In 2021, after Epic filed its lawsuit, Google reduced its cut to 15 percent for a developer’s first $1M in annual revenue. Some companies pay far less than 15 percent, though — even as low as zero.)
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