The App Store Small Business Program aims to improve the company’s public image and its standing in antitrust battles.
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‘A cynical ploy to divide and conquer’: Apple’s big App Store fee cut enraged its biggest adversaries in its developer war, including Spotify and Epic Games
Apple has reduced its commission on App Store in-app payments, but only for small developers. Spotify called it “arbitrary and capricious.” …
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Apple cuts its App Store commission fee from 30% to 15% for small developers
The reduced comission fee will see small developers keep 85% of the revenue their apps generate—up from the 70% they keep today.
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App Store: A Problem For Investors?
The App Store is back in the news, now that Apple has lowered its commission charged from smaller developers. Could the new payment policy cause a drag to Apple’s service revenues in 2021?
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Apple reduces App Store tax to 15% for 2021… but not for everyone
Apple has made a significant change to the way it charges its commission for paid apps and in-app purchases made via the App Store. The App Store Small Business Program will launch at the beginning of …
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Tinder publisher swipes left on Apple’s claims of thriving app store competition
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Match Group, and even Huawei have weighed in on the ACCC’s probe into app marketplaces.
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12 of the best hidden WhatsApp features you need to know
WhatsApp has a new feature that can make messages automatically disappear. Learn how to do that and much more with these tips.
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Save 5% on Apple products and more by using the Slide cash-back app
In the Slide app, search for Apple and choose Apple Gift Card … you’re getting an extra 4% (or 5%) on top of that. Take note, however, that if you need to return something (like the aforementioned …
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Apple dropping App Store fees to 15% for users with under $1 million in revenues
Amid increased regulatory scrutiny over how it runs its App Store, Apple today announced it will reduce the App Store commissions for smaller businesses. Under the new guidelines of the “App Store …
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Apple is slashing its App Store payment fees in half for smaller developers, to 15% from 30%
Apple has cut its commission on in-app purchases to 15%, from 30%, for developers making less than $1 million a year on the App Store.
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Apple cuts some App Store fees, but critics call it a ploy to avoid regulation
Apple announced Wednesday that it would cut its App Store fee to 15 percent for business with less than $1 million in revenue. Apple’s biggest critics say the move will do nothing to encourage new …
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Apple slashes controversial App Store fees for most developers
Apple is chopping by half the long-controversial commissions it charges on the sale of apps and services sold by smaller developers on its App Store, saying it wants to help them grow their businesses …
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Apple will slash App Store fees as antitrust pressure mounts
Apple said Wednesday it will slash the fees it charges app developers from 30% to 15% if the developer made less than $1 million in the prior year.
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Apple’s ‘Big Commission Cut’ Will Cost Only 2% Of App Store Revenue, According To One Estimate
This morning Apple dropped App Store commissions from 30% to 15%, meaning app developers pay less to Apple for hosting …
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Apple to cut app store fees as legal scrutiny intensifies
Apple will cut its app store commissions in half for most developers beginning next year amid an intensifying debate about whether the iPhone maker has been using the …
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Apple’s Big App Store Price Cut Isn’t Nearly Enough
Lowering the commissions it charges small developers doesn’t address broader issues over the smartphone giant’s market power and won’t appease critics.
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Dow Jones Jumps as Boeing 737 MAX Cleared for Takeoff, Apple Cuts App Store Fees
A strong performance from Boeing ( NYSE:BA) helped push the Dow higher on Wednesday. Shares of the airplane manufacturer jumped after U.S. regulators lifted the order that grounded the 737 MAX.
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