App Store Complaint From Chinese Developers
A group of 48 China-based iOS developers have filed an antitrust complaint against Apple with the country’s market regulator over the App Store’s commission rates, the South China Morning Post reports.
The developers sent an open letter to China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), alleging that Apple failed to deliver on a promise to offer the lowest commission rate to the Chinese market. The group asked the SAMR to investigate and penalize Apple for allegedly abusing its market dominance to impose “unfair and excessively high” costs on local developers.
Apple lowered the fees in March but not as much as it did in Brazil and Japan.
Previously:
- Lower App Store Fees in China
- Brazil: App Marketplaces and External Payments
- Japan: App Marketplaces, External Payments, New Fee Structure
- Regulatory Complaint About App Store in China
- Chinese App Store Antitrust Probe
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Apple will never be able to convince me that its cut is “fair”. Even at the lowered 15%, Apple’s main moves work *against* me (such as crapping ads all over the store, and refusing to give users any good ways to search). Then there are the moves Apple doesn’t make: no meaningful improvements to significant developer infrastructure, and it remains insulting how long it takes to load a sales page or heck even to make a new release on the store. It would be Overpriced in a normal competitive market for the paltry features Apple provides.
