Google on Tuesday rejected an app retailer monopoly swimsuit filed by Tinder mum or dad Match Group, saying it’s a “self-interested” marketing campaign placing cash forward of consumer security.

Google’s response got here a day after Match filed a lawsuit in federal court docket in San Francisco accusing the tech titan of abusing management of the Play Store that sells digital content material for Android-powered telephones.

“This is just a continuation of Match Group’s self-interested campaign to avoid paying for the significant value they receive from the mobile platforms they’ve built their business on,” a Google spokesperson informed AFP.

The litigation comes as a part of an ongoing battle by Match, Epic Games and others to drive Google mum or dad Alphabet and iPhone maker Apple to loosen their grips on their respective app shops.

Match’s submitting got here after Google modified Play Store guidelines to require its household of apps to make use of the Internet large’s cost system, which collects charges of as much as 30 p.c on transactions, court docket paperwork stated.

Google has made it clear that it’ll take away Match apps from the Play Store if they don’t adjust to the rule, Match stated within the submitting, which described such punishment as a “death knell.”

“This is a case about the strategic manipulation of markets, broken promises, and abuse of power,” Match stated within the swimsuit.

Google countered that Match is free to make its apps accessible elsewhere on-line, together with by itself web site.

While the App Store is the one gateway for content material to get onto Apple cell units, customers of Android-powered smartphones or tablets can obtain apps at their very own threat from on-line venues aside from Google’s Play Store.

Match’s lawsuit contends that regardless of having choices, customers get content material for Android units from the Play Store greater than 90 p.c of the time.

Match apps provided within the Play Store qualify to pay charges of simply 15 p.c on subscriptions, in response to the Google spokesperson.

“Like any business, we charge for our services, and like any responsible platform, we protect users against fraud and abuse in apps,” the spokesperson stated.

“Match Group is currently attracting regulator concerns over things like deceptive subscription practices, and with this filing they continue to put money ahead of user protection.”

Match known as on the court docket to order Google to let it sidestep the Play Store billing system whereas preserving its apps on the digital cabinets.

Match — whose apps embrace OkCupid, PlentyofFish, and Tinder —can be asking for unspecified financial damages and authorized charges.