New Year's gift: Apple cut commissions in the App Store earlier than promised

Last month, Apple promised to reduce the rate for developers who earned less than

$1 million from app sales and in-app purchases in the App Store. She promised - she did.

What does it mean

Although the innovations were supposed to come into forcefrom January 1, 2021, some developers have already had their commission reduced from 30% to 15%. Perhaps, in this way, Apple decided to please developers with the New Year and Christmas holidays.

This week Apple started shippingemails to developers whose income does not exceed the specified limit. The commission reduction has already been reported by David Hodge, creator of the Tesla Nikola car application, and Jacob Gorban, creator of the ImageFramer photo editor for Mac.

Apple has started charging 15% commission instead of 30%, at least for @Nikola_App.

Seems totally plausible they’d want to start rolling it out a few days early unofficially.

- David Hodge Coding (@HodgeCoding) December 24, 2020

Looks like the reduced Small Business App Storefee is now in effect. This is for our Mac app, ImageFramer. Time in UTC. 42.5 / 50 = 0.85. @mjtsai @OliverJHaslam @ 9to5mac @MacObserver pic.twitter.com/7LkaAQMhAR

- Jacob Gorban (@jacobgorban) December 24, 2020

Developers must themselves apply for a commission recalculation. Apparently, Hodge and Gorban were among the first.

At the same time, developers who earned more than $1 million continue to pay a 30 percent commission, which has caused a storm of criticism against Apple.

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