Match Group Inc., which produces software for dating apps, filed a lawsuit against Google, which is owned by Alphabet Inc. outside the app store (Play store), as they refuse to pay 30% of their sales revenue.
The filing of the lawsuit by Match is the latest development in a series of actions aimed at the abusive use of the Play store by Googlealong with other cases raised by “Fortnite”, creator of Epic Games, but also dozens of US attorneys general, and others.
Google did not immediately comment on the lawsuit.
However, it has announced that application developers have the option to bypass the Play store and that it has reduced the percentages it seeks, while it has created other programs in order to address the concerns about market monopoly manipulations on its part.
Match filed the lawsuit in federal court in California, while accusing Google of violating federal and state antitrust laws, aimed at eliminating this behavior.
This development is significant because some of Match applications have been excluded from Google policies for about a decade. Google has now announced that it will block the download of these Match applications from June 1, unless on their own initiative they open their payment system and share their revenue with Google, according to the text of the lawsuit. treatment.
“The filing of the lawsuit is the last resort available,” said Sar Dubey, Match’s chief executive, in a statement. “We tried in good faith to resolve these issues with Google, but their persistence and threats left us with no choice,” she explained.
For the month of March, there are hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue between the two companies, which should be paid to Google instead of Match’s funds.
Match announced that the majority of users in its most popular application (Tinder) prefer its payment system, which allows installment plans, money transfers through banks, but also other payment options, which are not available through Google, according to the same lawsuit.
According to Dubai, bypassing the Play store was not possible.
“It’s like saying ‘you don’t have to take the elevator to go to the 60th floor of a building. “You can always climb the outer wall,” she added.
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