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Google is downplaying the “premier tier” and says RSA 3.0 didn’t have an impact.

While we saw yesterday that big China phone makers are choosing Google’s RSA 3.0 “Premier Tier” — which gives them more money from Google in the form of shared revenue but also requires more compliance in return — Google’s economist suggests most phones have not gone that way.

Outside of China, only 7.4 percent of active Android devices are on the Premier Tier, according to one of the slides Google just presented, and roughly 27 percent of Android activations are on the Premier Tier as of July 2022.

(The latter does seem like a lot to me, though, particularly if you buy one of Google’s common arguments in this trial that it serves billions of people and so even small percentages add up to a lot.)


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