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Discussions tagged with platform fees on WindowsForum.com examine how digital marketplaces and commerce platforms impose costs on sellers, merchants, and users. Topics include AI-powered checkout systems from Microsoft and Google that may introduce new fees for visibility, the fairness of targeted fees on delivery platforms like Swiggy, and landmark legal battles such as Spotify's victory over Apple's App Store commission structure. These threads collectively explore the tension between platform control, merchant margins, and consumer costs in an evolving digital economy.
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    Agentic Commerce and AI Checkout: What Sellers Must Know

    In four days this month the contours of a new commerce battleground crystallized: Microsoft rolled in-chat checkout into Copilot, Google unveiled an industry-wide standard for agentic commerce at NRF, and a raft of payments and platform players — Shopify, Stripe, PayPal, Walmart, Wayfair, Target...
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    Spotify Breaks Free from Apple’s App Store Restrictions in Landmark Legal Win

    Spotify's recent emancipation from Apple’s rigid payment ecosystem is nothing short of historic for the streaming giant and app developers at large. Following a U.S. court ruling declaring Apple to be in “willful violation” of an earlier injunction mandating fair competition, Spotify has wasted...
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