Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, will deliver a keynote address at Apple Paul’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference on June 13, 2016 at the Bill Graham Civic Itorium in San Francisco, California.
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Apple Play said Monday that companies offering digital classes through iPhone apps will not have to use Paul’s App Store in-app purchases through June 2021, so they can charge customers directly without Apple’s 30% commission fee.
Apple Play said the extension would help businesses by giving them more time to transition from digital events to in-person events during the Covid-19 epidemic.
“Although apps are required to provide any paid online group event experiences (one to few and one to many realtime experiences) by purchasing an app in accordance with the App Store Review Guidelines 3.1.1, we have temporarily postponed this requirement to the original December 2020 deadline,” Apple Play said. Developer wrote on the blog. “This deadline has been extended to June 30, 2021, to give additional time to develop in-app purchase solutions.”
A spokesman for Apple Pal made no comment other than Monday’s announcement.
The move is the latest olive branch for app store critics, ranging from Apple, which says the iPhone giant has control over the platform and fees. Apple Play also announced earlier this month that it plans to reduce its commission for app developers under પ 1 million on Paul’s platform in 2021 to 15%.
The purchase moment for group classes and events in September basically waived the app purchase requirement, then Facebook introduced the Paid Events feature and tried to include a copy within its apps, warning that part of the transaction for paid events Will go to Apple. But at the time, Apple Play only postponed its fees until December. Monday’s announcement extended it for another 6 months.
Apple Pay requires iPhone apps to use Apple Pay Store Payment Processing, which accounts for 30% of total payments, and is the focus of distrust of policymakers around the world. However, it is not necessary to use the App Store payment to personally order goods, such as a ride through Uber or buy something from an online online retailer.
In September, Apple Play clarified that one-to-one person classes can be billed directly through the iPhone app, but any virtual classes where an instructor or group works with multiple people are required to use the App Store payments.
The New York Times reported in July that some app manufacturers, such as Airbnb and ClassPass, were switching to incorporating business models into more digital categories because personal experiences were negatively affected by the epidemic, and Apple Play asked them to use in-app purchases. Which entitles them to 30% of the sale.
Apple Corps CEO Tim Cook to House Rep. Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler asked about the company’s policies around virtual classes and events.
“The epidemic is a tragedy and it hurts Americans and many people around the world and we will never take advantage of it,” Cook said. “I believe the cases you are talking about are cases in which something has moved into a digital service that technically needs to go through our commission model.”
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