No major app developers have signed up, presumably due to the cost.
Earlier this year, Apple introduced a way for app developers to use outside payment options rather than conduct all transactions through its App Store. At this point, however, only 38 developers have signed up to use the option.
According to testimony presented to a federal judge this week, no major app developers have signed up to use outside payment options because the fees they would pay are just as high as they pay through the App Store, Bloomberg reports.
“It sounds to me as if the goal was to then maintain the business model and revenue you had in the past,” US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said to an Apple executive this week during a multi-day hearing to address a complaint by Epic Games that Apple isn’t abiding by the terms of an order issued by the judge in 2021.
