SEOUL—Google can’t punish South Korean app builders for providing cost workarounds, a blow to the U.S. tech big’s efforts to take care of its profitable fee on digital gross sales in the nation.
Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., had sought with coverage modifications to dam app builders from offering an in-app hyperlink to an out of doors web site to purchase digital items—a cost choice known as “outlinking” that sidesteps Google’s personal charges. Those providing the exterior hyperlinks couldn’t replace their apps beginning this month and might be faraway from the Google Play Store by June 1, the corporate stated just lately.
