It seems like Apple has attracted the anger of the consumer rights group in the Netherlands because of the App Store policy. The non-profit consumer competition claimed the foundation was
to file a class action against Apple, accusing its website that European consumers “had overdoed 5 billion euros for applications and purchases in their application and had to demand a refund.” As many negative attention Apple has received lately, it seems that this lawsuit is centered on apple costs for purchases made through the App Store.
Apple charges 30% of all pieces that are sold through the App Store, whether it is an application purchased in advance, purchases in applications that use the App Store payment system, or even a subscription starting through the App Store. For example, if someone signed up for Spotify through the iOS application, Apple took a 30% discount from a monthly subscription fee (reduced pieces to 15% after a one-year subscription user). Until recently, Apple prohibits application developers offering alternative payment methods in their applications, which is something that was finally taken by Epic Games to court.
The description of this lawsuit in consumer competition claims the foundation website is rather vaguely because it does not really enter into specifics. “By using anti-competitive practice, Apple has been able to impose excessive prices and impose restrictive conditions,” the site rang. “Apple excludes all competitions and holds options for consumers in application applications and purchases in their application.”
In speaking with Bloomberg (through macrumor), the foundation becomes a little more specific. It is said that it can be clean as many as 5.5 billion euros for consumers who buy applications or make purchases in the application using the iPhone or iPad. Of course, it was assuming that the lawsuit was successful, because the consumer competition claimed the foundation seemed to be in the phase where he recruited people for the class action lawsuit.
It seems that the foundation is largely focused on the Apple commission taking every sale facilitated by the App Store. For the most part, the commission is 30%, according to the foundation then causes the developer to climb the price. While Apple has adopted some flexibility in the required cuts – in 2020 it changes the commission to 15% for small businesses and developers who produce less than $ 1 million per year – developers sell applications and purchases in the application through the App Store are still subject to a kind of commission .
Apple pieces on the App Store sales have attracted a lot of criticism here on the other side of the Atlantic, such as Epic and Apple currently involved in a long legal battle for these costs and the inability of the App Store developer to advertise other external payment methods. . While the initial lawsuit does not run epic in most greetings, the company is currently through an appeal process.