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Bumble tested what it’d be like to only have Google Play Billing — and saw a 30 percent dip in users and per-user revenue.
But... was that because it charged more instead of totally absorbing Google’s fee? That’s not clear to me. The experiment was in 2017 and 2018.
It did forecast losses of $40 million to $50 million per year after the forced switch a few years later, though, so I suppose it was eating some.
The actual decline for Badoo on Android was 9.2 percent, it sounds like, but I missed some of the other important context there. One of the hits to Badoo was that Google Play didn’t support one-day subscriptions, Watts testified.
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