This isn't taxation. It's just a silly name for a fee. Fees are what make things sustainable.
It’s not a fee, thats just a silly name for a tax. Taxes are what make things sustainable.
See what I did there?
At the level of customer service they provide (ie ~none), Google Play would be "sustainable" at a 1% cut. Everything above that is pure profit. Which is exactly why they're doing everything they can to lock people into Google Play and lock people out of distributing/accessing apps outside of it. This isn't some kind service Google is providing at cost out of the goodness of their hearts, it's their attempt to corner the market and extract a massive amount of economic value without doing any meaningful work.
It's taxation when it's imposed by a monopoly over users who have no choice except walking away.