Creator of dating applications Match Group announcements on Friday, it withdrew its request for a temporary restraining order against Google after the Play Store operator admitted it would allow the group to temporarily offer consumers a choice of payment systems.
The announcement shows the outcome of an ongoing lawsuit, with the date of the trial currently set for April 2023.
Tinder-owner match sue google earlier in May, after being informed that he had to remove his apps from the Play Store by June 1, as the dating app maker refused to share up to 30% of sales, as required by the distribution developer agreement. Google. Match went on to claim that the lawsuit was a “last resort”.
The lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in California alleges that Google violated its mandate by requiring some application developers to use Google Play Billing to process payments.
Match added in a statement that as part of the interim agreement, it would put up to $ 40 million in an escrow account instead of paying Google for Android billing transactions outside of the Google Play Store billing.
Read: Google Play Store to try third-party payment options for some apps like Spotify
Match Group said that over the past decade, Google has used “lure and switching tactics” that have “exploited” application developers. The group added that Google misleadingly claims to support developers by paying competitors not to enter the market.
“Ten years ago, Match Group was a partner of Google. Now we are its hostage,” Match Group told the court at the time.
“Google has made Google Play the only viable market for Android apps,” but that wasn’t enough for Google. He also wanted to control the much more lucrative market for payment processing in the Android application, “added Match Group.
Google hit back in the Match Group, claiming that the statement published by the owner of Tinder was “misleading” and “mischaracterized what happened in the procedure”.
The Play Store operator noted that the group “successfully used the billing system in more than 10 of its applications” and that it collected “hundreds of millions of consumer revenue in more than 50 countries through Google Play billing last year.”
Google added that it would file a counterclaim against Match Group on the grounds that the dating app maker had breached its obligations under the developer distribution agreement and “to ensure that Google Play remains a trusted destination for users.”
Connected coverage
https://www.zdnet.com/article/court-request-sees-google-allow-tinder-owner-match-to-use-alternative-payment-systems/#ftag=RSSbaffb68
