In a lawsuit filed on Monday against Alphabet’s Google, Match Group said the action was a “last option” to save Tinder and its other dating apps from being removed from the Google Play store because they refused to share up to 30 percent of their revenues with the company.
Following in the footsteps of ongoing lawsuits made against Google by “Fortnite” creator Epic Games, dozens of state attorneys general throughout the United States, and others, Match is suing Google for allegedly anticompetitive behavior in the Play store.
Match, according to Google, was seeking to avoid paying for the enormous value it received from the service.
We charge for our services like any other business, and we safeguard our users from fraud the same way every other responsible platform does, according to the company. According to the company, their payment mechanism helps to combat scams.
Match’s action, which was filed in federal court in California, accuses Google of breaking federal and state antitrust laws and aims to prevent the company from engaging in similar conduct in the future, among other things.
A significant aspect of this decision is that specific Match applications have been excluded from Google regulations for around the last decade. In response, according to the complaint, Google has said that it would restrict downloads of such applications by June 1 unless they entirely use its payment system and split income.
According to Match Chief Executive Shar Dubey, it “is a measure of last option.” Our attempts to settle these issues with Google were made in good faith, but their tenacity and threats forced us to take this action. ”
The match is putting its money where its mouth is by claiming that it stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in income that would otherwise have to be paid to Google.
According to the complaint, tinder, Match’s most popular app, is preferred by the vast majority of its users because its payment method allows for installment plans and bank transfers and other features that are not available via Google.
Google has said that developers would be able to circumvent the Play store and that it has decreased pricing and implemented additional initiatives in response to the public’s concerns.
Dubey said that circling Play was not a realistic option.
This is analogous to stating, “You do not have to use the elevator to reach the 60th story of a building; you can always climb the outer wall,” she said.
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