Google bends the knee to South Korea, allows third-party in-app payments

Naturally, our beloved tech giants Google and Apple want you to exclusively use their own billing systems for in-app purchases on mobiles and tablets. For that reason, they have been facing global scrutiny for forcing developers to user their payment systems and charging them with an up to 30% commission. Governments around the world have been seeking to curb their control, but to no avail. Until now. South Korea’s “anti-Google” law has… worked! Perhaps you remember that in August South Korea passed a new bill, dubbed also as the “anti-Google” law, banning big app store operators like Google and Apple…

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