{"id":52469,"date":"2026-06-30T15:48:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52469"},"modified":"2026-06-30T15:52:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:52:55","slug":"app-store-complaint-from-chinese-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/30\/app-store-complaint-from-chinese-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"App Store Complaint From Chinese Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/06\/23\/apple-faces-new-app-store-antitrust-complaint\/\">Hartley Charlton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/06\/23\/apple-faces-new-app-store-antitrust-complaint\/\">\n<p>A group of 48 China-based iOS developers have filed an antitrust complaint against Apple with the country&rsquo;s market regulator over the App Store&rsquo;s commission rates, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3358024\/apple-faces-fresh-antitrust-complaint-chinese-developers-over-unfair-app-store-fees\">South China Morning Post<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The developers sent an open letter to China&rsquo;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 &ldquo;unfair and excessively high&rdquo; costs on local developers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Apple lowered the fees <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/13\/lower-app-store-fees-in-china\/\">in March<\/a> but not as much as it did in Brazil and Japan.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/13\/lower-app-store-fees-in-china\/\">Lower App Store Fees in China<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/23\/brazil-app-marketplaces-and-external-payments\/\">Brazil: App Marketplaces and External Payments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/18\/japan-app-marketplaces-external-payments-new-fee-structure\/\">Japan: App Marketplaces, External Payments, New Fee Structure<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/23\/regulatory-complaint-about-app-store-in-china\/\">Regulatory Complaint About App Store in China<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/13\/chinese-app-store-antitrust-probe\/\">Chinese App Store Antitrust Probe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hartley Charlton: A group of 48 China-based iOS developers have filed an antitrust complaint against Apple with the country&rsquo;s market regulator over the App Store&rsquo;s commission rates, the South China Morning Post reports. The developers sent an open letter to China&rsquo;s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), alleging that Apple failed to deliver on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-06-30T19:48:51Z","apple_news_api_id":"fcef7aee-c897-4f96-b0fc-0d0c5dc7d57a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-06-30T19:52:58Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A_O967siXT5aw_A0MXcfVeg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2085,91,101,1547,31,2741,41,209],"class_list":["post-52469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-appstore","tag-business","tag-china","tag-ios","tag-ios-26","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52477,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52469\/revisions\/52477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}