A host of companies, including Facebook Inc., Spotify Technology SA and “Fortnite” maker Epic Games Inc., are challenging the way Apple Inc. runs its App Store.
The App Store generates at least $15 billion in annual sales for the tech giant, according to analysts’ estimates. Critics say Apple takes too big a cut of app makers’ sales and wields monopoly power over the gateway that connects hundreds of millions of users to mobile apps. Apple disputes that characterization, saying that it collects only a portion of sales from a small percentage of the almost 2 million apps available on the App Store and that its practices are in line with competitors’ app marketplaces. Here is an overview of recent challenges to the App Store model and what they mean for consumers and the company.Apple takes a 30% cut on sales of paid apps and digital goods sold within apps.
It's Apple's store. If you don't like the rules go somewhere else.
Is $APPL screwed? Let’s see what happens
If all these companies decide to boycott Apple, the market will shift from Apple. It needs to change its policies for its own good.
tough rocks - run your own business and let Apple run theirs
Too bad. Apple users expect PERFECTION and they deliver! We don’t want any changes!
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