From The Verge: The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (or ACM) has rejected Apple’s proposed App Store changes that would let dating app developers use third-party payment systems, according to 9to5Mac and the Coalition for App Fairness. The Dutch regulator ordered the change in December and has been going back and forth with the company over how it should be implemented — and charging Apple millions in fines along the way. Now, Apple could face further penalties.
According to a journalist’s tweet translated by 9to5Mac (and now available in full, below, in English), the regulator says Apple’s most recent proposal for letting developers use third-party payment systems is an “improvement” over its previous ideas, but it’s still “not sufficient to comply with European and Dutch regulations.” Apple did not immediately reply to The Verge’s request for comment.
Apple’s latest proposal, which it submitted on March 27th, said that dating app devs could use either a third-party payment system or Apple’s, not both, and that developers would have to warn users they were about to interact with a system that Apple didn’t control. The same is true if the developer sends users to its site to complete a purchase.
Apple also said that developers using alternative payment systems would still owe the company a 27 percent commission on in-app sales, compared to the 30 percent it takes from most in-app payments using its own system. (If the developers made less than $1 million in revenue a year, that’d be highly unfavorable compared to Apple’s Small Business Program rate of 15 percent.)
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