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They dropped in-app subscriptions on Android as well in May 2018. But why?

Unless I’m mistaken, the Google Play Developer Policy allows you to use a different payments provider, such as Stripe, in a case like Netflix or Spotify’s:

> Developers […] must use Google Play In-app Billing as the method of payment, except for the following cases: […] Payment is for digital content that may be consumed outside of the app itself […]

Source: https://play.google.com/intl/en/about/monetization-ads/

At least in the past, Skype has been doing exactly that, for example.



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