Google takes a page from Apple's playbook, and developers stand to make serious cash

Google's developer policies are about to be a lot more competitive with Apple.

Google is lowering the amount of money it takes out of app subscriptions, from 30 percent to 15 percent, after the first year a user's been subscribed. That's exactly the same as Apple's policy, which was changed last year.

Here's how Google's transactions fees for developers will now be structured: for the first year, they'll get a 70 percent cut, with Google taking 30 percent. After the first year, Google's cut will drop to only 15 percent. Read more...