A new class action lawsuit in the UK from over 1,500 developers calls Apple’s App Store fee excessive and a result of the company’s app distribution monopoly.
A new class action lawsuit in the UK from over 1,500 developers calls Apple’s App Store fee excessive and a result of the company’s app distribution monopoly.
Apple charges developers up to a 30% commission on transactions made on its platform. This fee has been long-scrutinized by world governments and developers alike, but so far has survived such scrutiny.
The latest attack on App Store fees comes from a group of 1,566 app developer in the UK. According to a report from Reuters, the group has started a class action lawsuit against Apple on the basis that the fee is excessive and a result of Apple’s monopoly on its app distribution platform.
“Apple’s charges to app developers are excessive, and only possible due to its monopoly on the distribution of apps onto iPhones and iPads,” Sean Ennis, a professor at the Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia and a former economist at the OECD, said in a statement.
