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This was in October 2008:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/10/android-marke...

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"Developers will get 70% of the revenue from each purchase; the remaining amount goes to carriers and billing settlement fees — Google does not take a percentage. We believe this revenue model creates a fair and positive experience for users, developers, and carriers," notes Eric Chu.

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This statement was at that time interpreted, that Google is buying marketshare from the carriers.

I don't know if the sentence "Google does not take a persentage" still stands and how the transactions fee is splitted today.

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An issue of wired I think 2 months ago claimed that the current payout was 30% to Verizon and 70% to the developer with Google getting no cut from app sales. Obviously their information could have been dated as well.