[diltonm]

"In fact, in the past year, we paid more than $7 billion to developers distributing apps and games on Google Play."

Do they mean when I buy someone's app and send them my money that they are taking the credit for "paying" the developer? If so then that's wrong. My bank doesn't pay my bills. I pay my bills using my bank's system.

[blfr]

They did a little more than a bank. They built Android and its marketplace rather than just serve as an intermediary in the payment process.

[diltonm]

That's true and very admirable but not what I was objecting to. It's this line that I find objectionable:

"we paid more than $7 billion to developers"

No, the Marketplace enabled $7 billion in transactions between the customers and the developers, that would have been a more correct way to state it.