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Comment on Ask HN: How is this legal that you must use Google Billing for Android apps?

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Sometimes, I feel it's a little unfair to products that directly compete with one of their SaaS offerings.

Take Google or Apple Photos, for example. Due to this 30% cut, they always have an unfair advantage when it comes to pricing.

In the case of Apple Services, we don't know if, under the hood, they are using undocumented APIs or whitelisting internal apps to provide a better experience when it comes to background work. (Context: Apple claims that the iPhone performs backups and a bunch of other tasks during the night while the phone is charging. Personally, I haven't seen any app perform these long-running backups as smoothly as their in-house apps.)

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