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Apple gives small developers more ways around its alternative app store tax
Apple is tweaking its EU rules for apps that unexpectedly go viral.
“This condition is intended to give students, hobbyists, and other non-commercial developers an opportunity to create a popular app without paying the CTF,” Apple writes in the update. Apple won’t charge the small developer the CTF even if they hit 1 million annual installs in the three-year window and continue to exceed it. “Apple is tweaking its anticompetitive ‘core technology’ junk fee — while still demanding a cut of transactions they have nothing to do with, from apps distributed through channels they have nothing to do with, in violation of EU law,” Sweeney writes.
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