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		brown9-2 on March 2, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The mother of all Android malware has arrived 3) Users should be able to trust everything in a curated app store, or else there's not much point to those 30% fees. Wait a second - does Google curate the Android market or charge 30% fees?

mdonahoe on March 2, 2011 [–]

I don't know about the curation, but the fees are real, according to this:

http://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=11262...

Zaak on March 2, 2011 | [–]

Does Google take that fee, or does it go to the mobile carrier?

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