If you’ve ever used an online signing service to sideload apps on your iPhone before, which is typically a one-year service provided by a third party for a fee, then you’re likely familiar with it becoming revoked. This occurs when Apple finds out the Apple Developer account is being abused and thusly closes the Apple Developer account so that the signing service can’t continue.
Apple is reportedly testing upcoming support for the Douyin Pay payment feature for App Store purchases in China, according to local media reports.
In a post shared on social media platform 𝕏 (formerly Twitter) over the weekend, Elon Musk claimed that Apple was unfairly skewing App Store metrics to keep all Artificial Intelligence apps besides OpenAI’s ChatGPT from reaching the #1 spot and threatened legal action.
Apple may avoid punitive daily fines for breaching the European Union's (EU) Digital Markets Act as the bloc is set to approve the App Store changes.
A law passed by Congress in the United States effectively banned the popular TikTok social media app in the United States. Despite briefly disappearing from the App Store in the United States, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to halt enforcement of the law for 75 days, and even more recently granted another 90-day extension to that.
A major change to the App Store within the past couple of months as a result of a ruling by United States district court judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers means that third-party developers like Epic Games and Spotify are finally able to direct consumers to web-based purchases rather than using the App Store’s in-app purchase method and paying Apple a 15-30% commission fee in the process.
These past couple of weeks have been an interesting roller coaster of events between Apple and Epic Games, two large companies that have been duking it out in various courtrooms all over the world for several years as a result of Apple’s anti-competitive and predatory App Store practices, which harm developers.
The Apple vs. Epic Games saga continues to heat up… this time with Epic Games scheming to try and compel Apple to approve the popular Fortnite mobile video game on its App Store via court order (at least, that’s what could happen if the game publisher gets its way).
Just last week, Fortnite game publisher Epic Games re-submitted the popular battle royale game to Apple’s App Store following a U.S.-based judge’s ruling that Apple could not charge 15-30% commission fees on in-app purchases made from apps and that app makers could use their own payment systems outside of the App Store’s.
EU iPhone owners are greeted with a prominent warning at the top of the App Store for apps that provide external purchases, above even the app’s name and icon.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know by now that Apple ejected the popular Fortnite video game from the App Store in 2020 after game developer Epic Games introduced an in-app payment system to the game that tried to circumvent Apple’s App Store policies. This resulted in an epic legal battle between the two companies that has raged on for years.
Apple just last week made a substantial change to its App Store external payment policy, enabling external off-app purchases following a court ruling involving longtime legal rival Epic Games in which the Cupertino-based company was found to be engaging in anti-competitive behavior.