Apple has revised the App Store Guidelines for Developers, allowing them to enable the external link or payment gateway for purchasing and membership without any commission. A day after the California-based district court’s verdict, there was a change that the Apple Landmark vs. EPIC Games failed to follow the 2021 decision in the Antitust case, which put Cupertino-based huge guilty to violate California’s antitrust laws and forced it to open external payments in the Eps.
with these AmendmentApps listed on the iOS and MACOS app store will no longer be prohibited from “buttons, external links, or other call to action” for payment out of the app. While these changes were already implemented last year, Apple was required to apply for a special “eligibility” for them to allow developers to pay through external sources. This will essentially allow developers to click users to click on a button within the app and take them to an outer page where they can complete the transaction for purchase or membership.
However, Apple will still charge a 27% commission fee, notorious, called “Apple Tax”, developers on any sale were created via external link-30% compared to that developers with more than $ 1 million annual revenue will have to pay on in-app payments. Apple has a long time Justified These payments say that its safe technologies, including store kits, prevent fraud transactions and allow them to pass safely with proper tracking measures.
With the latest decisions, Apple has agreed to cancel the 27% commission, as reflected in its updated app store guidelines for developers. However, the ruling still applies only to developers in the US, and in other areas they may still be subject to commission. For example, Apple’s rules for the European Union can still be subject to at least 10% or 17% commission – based on their revenue – on sale, despite the system.
To ignore these commissions, many developers, including Spotify and Netflix, disabled the payment link within the app and consumers needed to pay or renew membership through the web. This is expected to replace with the latest ruling, which will allow developers to maintain 100% profits.
The cost of commissions was also absorbed by consumers, and developers had to increase their membership prices to cover them. For example, the monthly membership you will pay for X’s premium tier vary on the basis that you pay through the app or web. With the latest decisions, we hope the prices will go down as the cost for developers will be reduced.
For developers, who do not wish to install their own payment page, as part of its constant disregard for epic sports, Apple, … Offered A simple solution. If the app is listed at the Epic Games Store, developers will have to pay 0% commission at the first $ 1,000,000 in annual revenue. However, these can only benefit consumers in the European Union, where Apple has been forced to offer the option of the App Store as part of another mistrust against it.
In addition to the ruling, the court has Specified Apple to the United States Attorney for “Criminal Contesting Investigation” can actually trigger these changes in its rules, which really can trigger these changes in their rules. Apple first emphasized compliance and then appealed to the decision according to Reuters, but this may be a lean opportunity after the US Supreme Court reduced the previous appeal in the case, asked to reverse the 2021 decision.
