Google will test letting Android developers use their own billing systems, starting with Spotify

Google is introducing a pilot to let “a small variety of taking part builders” provide a fee system along with Google Play’s. Spotify would be the first and can use each Google Play’s billing system and its personal. “This pilot will assist us to extend our understanding of whether or not and the way person alternative billing works for customers in several international locations and for builders of various sizes and classes,” Google’s Sameer Samat mentioned in a weblog submit.

Spotify:

Customers who’ve downloaded Spotify from the Google Play Retailer will likely be offered with a option to pay with both Spotify’s fee system or with Google Play Billing. For the primary time, these two choices will reside facet by facet within the app. It will give everybody the liberty to subscribe and make purchases utilizing the fee possibility of their alternative straight within the Spotify app. Spotify will proceed to freely talk with customers about our Premium subscription service, promote reductions and promotions, and provides listeners on our Free tier the flexibility to transform to Premium straight within the app.

Over the approaching months, Spotify will work with Google’s product and engineering groups to construct this new expertise, and we’ll roll out in international locations around the globe. Working collectively, the businesses will check and be taught, collectively exploring product improvements throughout the Android platform. We anticipate launching the primary iteration of Consumer Alternative Billing later this yr.

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