Korea’s antitrust org to develop a platform to respond to Big Tech’s sneaky ways
According to South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission, Apple said it will correct an oddity that sees local developers charged even more than the usual 30 percent Cupertino demands for sales of software in its App Store.
News of the change comes after the Commission (FTC) in September launched an antitrust probe into Apple – in part because it added a ten percent sales tax before charging commission fees in South Korea, and only South Korea. The unusual billing policy resulted in Korean app developers paying a 33 percent rate of commission while their overseas counterparts paid only 30 percent.
The FTC has had words with Apple about the situation, and the iThing-maker has promised to fix it so South Korean developers pay just 30 percent.
