Google has increased the limit that developers can charge for apps they sell and distribute on the Play Store for Android devices. Until now the limit was 400 US dollars, but the new terms of service of the App Store they increase the limit to $1,000, or its local equivalent.
This means that, in the case of Europe, the maximum price at which a developer can sell an application It’s 940 dollarsa limit that also applies to in-app purchases.
The new price limit applies to both in-app and in-app purchases
The new app price limit for the Play Store was recently announced at the annual Google I/O 2024 developer conference. This is the second time Google has increased this limit for the virtual app store during its existence.
Originally, the maximum price of an app distributed on the Play Store was 200 US dollars, but Google increased this limit to 400 dollars in 2015. Now, almost nine years later, the company has further increased the limitthis time up to 1,000 US dollars, or to be more precise, up to 999.99 dollars.
The price limit for applications in Europe is 940 dollars.
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In the case of Europe and the rest of European countries, the new maximum price of applications is 940 dollars
All local currency price limits for each country can be found on the Google Play Store support site.
This is a considerable increase in the price limit, but the reality is that very few developers offer apps or in-app content at such high prices. The most expensive apps in the Play Store are usually aimed at the business market, like software and services aimed at businesses.
However, always surely We will see apps with a ridiculously high priceas a joke, in the style of this application called “I Am Rich” which arrived on the iOS App Store more than ten years ago at the price of $999.99 and which was of no use.
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Via | Android Authority
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