Apple is letting Facebook temporarily process payments for its online events feature, meaning event hosts won’t be subject to Apple’s fee.
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Apple makes unexpected concession on 30% App Store fees
Apple will temporarily drop its contentious App Store fees for businesses that have been forced by the pandemic to pivot to online-only events, in an unexpected concession after increasingly vocal …
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Facebook events service gets temporary exemption from Apple App Store fees: blog post
Facebook Inc said on Friday that businesses running paid online events on its iOS app would not need to pay a 30% fee to Apple for the remainder of 2020, temporarily defusing a standoff between the …
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Great cheap accessories for all Apple Watch models
Are you the proud pre-orderer of a new Apple Watch Series 6? Maybe you pulled the trigger on a discounted Series 5 or opted for the Series 3 with the more attractive $199 price tag. (Actually, the …
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Latest developments in the TikTok saga as U.S. app store ban looms
CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal reports on the latest in the deal between ByteDance, Oracle and Walmart as all sides try to hammer out a final agreement for TikTok’s future.
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Free the Apps!
By comparison, Tim Sweeney, Epic’s chief executive, told Times Opinion that it costs the company between 5 percent and 7 percent of sales to operate its games stores, and they collect 12 percent from …
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Apple In Trouble As Major Companies Join Forces Against App Store Policies
Epic Games is far from alone in its distaste for Apple’s App Store policies. Now, a group of major companies has joined forces to form a coalition opposing these policies, and the door is wide open …
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The Rallying Cry Against Apple’s App Store Policies is Getting Louder
Several developers and organizations have banded together to lead a campaign against Apple’s App Store policies. Announced today, the Coalition for App Fairness (CAF) is a new nonprofit dedicated to …
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App Store rejected 150,000 apps in 2020, seeing 100,000 submissions per week
Apple is promoting a new series of statistics revealing details of App Store operations, plus how the Apple Developer Program has grown.
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App makers band together to fight for App Store changes with new ‘Coalition for App Fairness’
A number of top app makers have banded together to fight against Apple’s control of its App Store and, to a lesser extent, Google’s control of the Play Store — a topic of increased regulatory scrutiny …
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App Store rejected 150,000 apps in 2020 & is seeing 100,000 submissions per week
Apple is promoting a series of new series of statistics revealing details of App Store operations, plus how the Apple Developer Program has grown.
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Epic, Spotify and other Apple critics form coalition to take on App Store rules
More than a dozen app makers and other companies have joined together to form the Coalition for App Fairness, a nonprofit group that’s taking aim at Apple and its App Store rules. Among the founding …
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Could this be the thing that finally turns the tide against Apple’s App Store fees?
App makers like Spotify have blasted the Apple App Store fees and various practices of the store for a while now. Now, several of these app developers and longtime critics of Apple’s App …
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Apple’s smaller rivals unite to fight iPhone app store rules | Charlotte Observer
Spotify and the makers of Fortnite and Tinder are taking on Apple and Google as part of a newly formed coalition calling for “fair treatment” in the way the tech giants run their app stores.
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Spotify, Match Join a Challenge to Apple’s App Store Practices
Epic Games’ fight with Apple has inspired a growing group of developers that seek legal and regulatory limits on the tech giant’s control.
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Apple critics unite to challenge App Store fees
Two hugely popular mobile apps are joining forces to take on Apple in a battle over its App Store purchases. The music streaming service Spotify and “Fortnite” creator Epic Games are banding together …
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Apple Highlights App Store’s Role in Discovery, Privacy, and Safety: ‘More Than Just a Storefront’
Apple has overhauled its About the App Store and Developing for the App Store web pages to focus on several key areas, including discovery, …
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