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When I sell products or services on a marketplace like eBay, Etsy, Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, Steam, Shopify, Apple Store, Amazon, etc., the marketplace handles the payment and the marketplace takes a cut for themselves.

How is Android any different?

It seems the 2nd EU link of gatekeepers in my original comment is no longer loading as it was before, but this link with "_en" suffixed to it does; can't edit my previous comment though.

https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers_en

In there you will find pdfs for each entity with not only the qualifiers/assessments, but also the counter arguments they presented.

For example, here is one from Alphabet that also brings up your point in the counter argument

https://ec.europa.eu/competition/digital_markets_act/cases/2...

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