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Some subscription app developers suspect Apple is buying Google ads that send users to their apps in the App Store in order to protect its

cut by decreasing web-based sign-ups.

Because remember, the judge ruled that apps will be allowed going forward to link out to web pages, so developers can offer sign up options there.

So if this is indeed happening, it suggests that that 30% cut of sales is such a sweet fat easy margin for

Apple to make that even if it has to spend a little bit costs of goods sold to

protect even a percentage of that percentage.

It makes financial sense to Apple.

And they've apparently already been doing this,

allegedly, according to some developers,

for years, even before the judge's ruling.

Quoting Forbes.

Apple is secretly buying Google ads for high-value apps to collect potentially millions of

dollars in subscription revenue.

Multiple app publishers have told me.

Apple is placing the ads without the app developer's consent and Google won't delete them, they say.

It's a form of ad arbitrage, they say, and it's been going on for at least two years.

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