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Apple App Store
Basic Information
Release Year 2008
Product Type Software marketplace
In Production Yes
Official Website https://www.apple.com/app-store/


Apple uses a range of technical measures to maintain control over the App Store ecosystem. While Apple cites security and user-friendliness as the reasoning behind these measures, they often create roadblocks for users as well as app developers. Some of the methods Apple uses to control its ecosystem hinders lawmakers' ability to advocate for the rights of consumers and businesses within Apple's ecosystem and prevents apps from being as useful and free as their customers expect.

Although there are supported iOS application installation source alternatives such as Altstore, they are not commonly used or known, which gives Apple a practical monopoly over iOS users and iOS app developers.

Apple has made claims that they are unaware about the profitability of the App Store[1][2] but takes fees of up to 30% on digital product sales and subscriptions,[3] ranging from game currency to supporting content creators[4] to booking a Zoom call with a local business.[5] Some argue that these fees hinder iOS app developers from innovating because this money cannot be used to further improve their applications.[citation needed] There are groups in support of developers who are experiencing difficulties in continuing development due to Apple (and Google's) fees of between 15% and 30% of all revenue. These groups deny the notion that Apple and Google require the money generated by the app more than the developer.[citation needed] These fees also push app developers to increase prices to maximize profits, which increases the prices for end users.

Because of this, several governments including South Korea,[6] Japan,[7] the European Union (EU),[8] the United Kingdom,[9] Australia,[10] as well as the US and a handful of US States[11][12][13][14] have opened investigations into anti-competitive practices as well as have considered or passed legislation to require "gatekeeper platforms" such as Apple to be more reasonable with third-party developers.

In response to such legislative measures, Apple has instituted geo-blocking operating system functionality based on physical location,[15] misrepresenting/overstating risks, and using careful wording with commonly understood terms to describe difficult-to-use systems.[citation needed]

Unlike traditional software license purchases, Apple's App Store terms tie the license to a specific account, making it impossible for users to resell their licenses secondhand, buy apps secondhand, or inherit a license from a relative.[16] This system has since been copied by numerous other players in the media and digital goods sector.

Background info

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Important terms in this article:

  • Sandbox: Reduces the user's device/data exposure to security risks by reducing what an app is allowed to do.
  • Entitlements: Apple's method of "poking holes" in the sandbox to give the app more permissions. Some are available to developers, while many are only available to Apple.
  • Digital Markets Act: The European Union's recent regulations targeted at large "Big Tech" companies, classified as "Gatekeepers," and aimed at creating a more fair level of competition in digital markets, particularly for small or emerging companies.

In-app purchases

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Apple has been collecting users' credit card numbers since launching the iTunes Store in 2004. The launch of the App Store in 2008, followed by the introduction of in-app purchases (IAPs) in 2009, allowed iPhone app developers to sell app features to users. The IAP system is provided as a developer framework named StoreKit. Apps and their in-app purchases are managed through a dashboard named App Store Connect. App sales have eclipsed iTunes Store sales and are now a primary focus of Apple's Media Services division. Apple requires that any purchase of a digital good or service within an app use its in-app purchase system.

App Store purchase fees range from 15% to 30%. In September 2016, Apple expanded subscriptions to be available for any type of app, also introducing a 15% discount incentive for users who had already subscribed for a year.[17] In November 2020, Apple introduced a reduced 15% fee for app developers with annual revenue below $1 million.[18] For developers above this threshold, and for cases excluded from this program, such as for games, the fee is 30%. In the 2008 announcement of the App Store, Apple considered this a reasonable, industry-standard fee. However, the way we use apps has significantly evolved since 2009 - the world has shifted to heavily depend upon mobile apps, which have also evolved into more complex and sustainable business models than a simple one-time purchase.

Stripe, a popular platform used for payments on the web, uses a base fee of 2.9% plus a fixed $0.30 in the United States.[19] With add-on services, before considering volume discounts, a Stripe transaction may have a cost of 6.4% + $1.10.[20] Stripe has been used by businesses ranging from small online stores to OpenAI for ChatGPT Plus. Competing payment services have similar or identical fees to Stripe. The in-app purchase system does not provide sufficient value to justify the considerably higher costs compared to alternative payment platforms.

The App Store system poorly handles secondary marketplaces of digital services that exist within the primary App Store marketplace, such as Patreon. Apple requires companies selling digital services to use this inadequate system, in which app developers must account for Apple's fee, which is significant enough to warrant price increases, and to follow rules even if they do not align with the nature of the service being provided. This has led to disputes between Apple and app developers and injects complications at no benefit to the marketplace, the developers, or the end users. The main beneficiary of this system is Apple, which has little to no involvement after delivering the initial app download to the user's phone. The significant fee also often drives app developers to consider building their app around an advertising model instead, creating privacy concerns.

Additionally, the 15% small business fee discount is determined based on the app's overall turnover and is not applied to individual creators within the app's marketplace. An app that generates over $1 million per year by providing services to creators who individually earn less than $1 million per year does not qualify for the discount.

Apple, often in conjunction with Google, engages in lobbying efforts in the United States and other countries to address these issues. "ACT | The App Association", pitched as an association of independent small business app developers, is at least 50% funded by Apple, and does not list its claimed 2,000 members.[21][22] In March 2024, the United States Department of Justice, along with 16 state attorneys general, filed a lawsuit against Apple, alleging that the company "extracts more money from consumers, developers, content creators, artists, publishers, small businesses, and merchants, among others."[13] The future of this lawsuit is unclear as of April 2025.

Despite criticism of Apple imposing its fee on transactions with small businesses and creators on platforms such as Patreon and Facebook, on January 23, 2025, Apple announced the Advanced Commerce API. It "support[s] developers' evolving business models - such as extensive content catalogs, creator experiences, and subscriptions with optional add-ons."[23] While positioned as a way for such businesses to save development time and avoid ongoing costs by building on top of Apple's established payments platform, its use is necessary for these businesses to comply with the App Store guidelines, as seen in the cases outlined below. The feature requires submitting a description of the app's business model to Apple for approval. In this case, Apple is not acting as a platform for digital services but a gatekeeper of who is and is not allowed to conduct business in the digital market.

Epic Games

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See also: Epic Games v. Apple and Epic Games v. Google


Epic Games, Inc. is a video game developer and publisher, known for games such as Fortnite and Unreal Tournament, the Unreal Engine, and the Epic Games Store.

In 2018, Epic Games launched Fortnite on the iOS and Android platforms. The company made the unusual decision not to release the app on the Google Play Store - instead, it was made available as a standalone Android app package file (.apk), which must be installed by following a series of manual steps.[24] The app was also released on the Samsung Galaxy Store. Google offered Epic Games a $147 million deal to release Fortnite on the Play Store, which the company declined.[25]

On 22 April 2020, Fortnite was finally released on the Play Store.[26] In a statement, the company explained:

After 18 months of operating Fortnite on Android outside of the Google Play Store, we've come to a basic realization: Google puts software downloadable outside of Google Play at a disadvantage, through technical and business measures such as scary, repetitive security pop-ups for downloaded and updated software, restrictive manufacturer and carrier agreements and dealings, Google public relations characterizing third party software sources as malware, and new efforts such as Google Play Protect to outright block software obtained outside the Google Play store.

On 13 August 2020, Epic Games launched a campaign against both Apple and Google's app store business practices. The company released app updates on both platforms, introducing a method for purchasing V-Bucks, in-game currency, at a 20% discount by directly transacting with Epic Games, against the developer rules of both platforms. The platforms responded by removing the game from their storefronts. Epic Games then filed civil antitrust lawsuits against both companies in the Northern District of California.[27] The campaign, branded "Free Fortnite," was later extended with lawsuits and complaints in Australia,[28] the European Union,[29] and the United Kingdom.[30]

On September 11, 2021, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers decided the case. While the lawsuit against Apple failed on nine of the ten counts, Rogers ruled against Apple's use of "anti-steering" - its strategy of preventing users from being "steered" to a third-party storefront for payment processing - and placed a permanent injunction on this behavior.[31] Despite the case mostly failing, the discovery process provided significant insight into Apple's decision-making process regarding App Store policies, including decisions made in major app review disputes. In one case, executive Phil Schiller argued for reducing the fee by 30%.[32]

Epic Games and Apple both appealed the decision. Thirty-five state attorneys-general, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Microsoft, among others, filed amicus briefs in support of Epic Games.[33]

On 11 December 2023, the jury in the case against Google decided in favor of Epic Games on all 11 counts.[34]

On 1 May 2025, Rogers found that Apple wilfully chose not to comply with the 2021 injunction, commenting that it was a "gross miscalculation" that "this court would tolerate such insubordination."[35]

Facebook online events

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In August 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Facebook introduced the ability for small businesses to accept an entrance fee for events. Previously, Facebook would only serve as a way to RSVP for an event; the organizer had to use a third-party event ticketing system to collect fees. The company pledged not to collect any fee on event sales "until 2023."[36]

Apple, however, required the feature to use an in-app purchases system. This introduced Apple's 30% fee. Because this increased the cost for end users and was not a fee imposed by the event holders, it was initially displayed as a line item upon check out. Apple argued that this disclosure was "irrelevant."[5] In the end, Facebook was allowed display the fee, but without stating that it was an App Store fee. Apple's reluctance to have these fees transparently shown and identified in the course of the purchase is confusing if such fees considered necessary and fair.

HEY

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HEY.com is a paid webmail provider launched in June 2020 by long-time software company 37signals, specializing in inbox organization tools.

After successfully launching the initial version of the app on the App Store, the company announced that an update was rejected due to a complaint about the business model. The app does not support in-app purchases; instead, users are expected to have an account with the service already. Apple did not like this arrangement and demanded that the company build an in-app subscription option. The company argued that it is being held to a different set of rules than apps such as Netflix, whose app does not provide any way to purchase a subscription.[37] After a suggestion from Apple executive Phil Schiller in the media, HEY introduced a 14-day free trial mode, which was approved.[38][39]

Patreon

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In August 2024, Patreon announced a change in arrangement with Apple for its App Store app. From November 2024, subscriptions started from the iOS app would be required to use the in-app purchase system, bypassing Patreon's own long-standing payment practices.[40][4] This change does not affect the Android app.

By forcing Patreon out of the payments pipeline, specific payment models are no longer available to users of Patreon's iOS app. Creators who rely on the "per-creation" payment model, as opposed to the standard "per-month", can no longer be subscribed to from the app. The app is also unable to support the "first-of-the-month" model, where payments from all subscribers are collected on the first day of the month, rather than every 30 days, since each member's subscription day varies. The price must also be rounded to a price tier supported by Apple.

Patreon allows creators to choose between increasing their prices by 30% in the iOS app or maintaining the same prices, forfeiting 30% to Apple. Creators frequently remind potential supporters not to use the Patreon iOS app, adding extra inconvenience to those wanting to support the work of small creators.

  • "Maintain earnings and cover Apple's fee by increasing prices in the iOS app" (Recommended)
    "Maintain earnings and cover Apple's fee by increasing prices in the iOS app" (Recommended)
  • "Keep prices in the iOS app the same and cover Apple's fee yourself."
    "Keep prices in the iOS app the same and cover Apple's fee yourself."

A similar case occurred with the app Fanhouse in 2021.[41]

Twitter

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In August 2021, Twitter introduced a feature named Super Follows (now Subscriptions), in which users can pay a subscription fee to access more of a creator's content. For each user who enables Subscriptions, Twitter must submit a new in-app purchase SKU to the App Store, which will become available with the next update to the app.[42] This, of course, is subject to the 30% fee. At the time of writing in January 2025, viewing the App Store listing reveals Elon Musk's $4.00 subscription as the fourth most popular IAP item.

Notarization

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Since 2015, Apple has required all Mac apps to be "notarized." This is a preliminary, automated malware check, which, upon passing, provides a notary certificate that gets "stapled" to the app. Apple's explanation:

Notarization of macOS software is not App Review. The Apple notary service is an automated system that scans your software for malicious content, checks for code-signing issues, and returns the results to you quickly. If there are no issues, the notary service generates a ticket for you to staple to your software; the notary service also publishes that ticket online where Gatekeeper can find it.[43]

Whether this approach is actually better than that used by Windows antivirus, which only detects new malware samples when they are already on a user's computer, is a separate topic.

To comply with the DMA's regulations on app marketplaces, Apple created a new channel for releasing apps outside of the iOS App Store. Apps go through a notarization process. But the process is definitely not notarization. The name is intentionally being abused, by contrast to notarization on macOS, to make you believe it is something other than the existing App Review system. Despite the pain some developers and users have with it, notarization on macOS has always been considered a net positive. It made sense to take advantage of its reputation for the entirely different "notarization" on iOS.

See for yourself - view the App Review Guidelines and tick "Show Notarization Review Guidelines Only". While this eliminates most rules, a significant number of them remain in place. These apps are still reviewed and tested by the App Review team, must have a complete product listing in App Store Connect, and can be outright rejected - all in the same way as an App Store app.

By contrast, all that is required for notarization on macOS is for your app not to be malware. You submit it to an automated system that approves it within minutes. You don't need to convince Apple that your app is worthy of existing on their platform.

The purpose of macOS notarization is that Apple maintains a record of all binaries intended for wide distribution on macOS, allowing it to review them both in advance and regularly for known malware/common malware patterns. If a malware app manages to get through, when Apple initially finds out, they can go back into the notary records and find every sample of that malware to analyze and block. This is a purely technical process, managed by skilled security researchers. At the same time, iOS app review and "notarization" are business processes managed by workers who have been given a checklist of violations to look for.

Apple is retaining complete control over what's allowed to run on iOS. On macOS, you can choose to run apps that have not been notarized (even though the process to bypass the warning is intentionally difficult). On iOS, you never get even that option. What Apple created is the App Store, but with more steps. It is still available on the App Store, but it is hidden so that it can only be installed through the third-party store it's tied to.

  • Mysk: "iOS should enable alternative marketplaces to add their own links when users share their apps. Links still point to the App Store, and if the app is not available there, this happens."[44]

JIT

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Safari is allowed to use JIT to compile code from any site, just like Apple's Playgrounds app on iPad. Playgrounds bundle Apple's Swift compiler and share back-end code with the version of Playgrounds found in Xcode.

Third-party apps, such as Pythonista (a Python IDE), emulators like Delta and UTM, and terminal environments like iSH, are not allowed to use JIT; instead, they must interpret code, which results in severe performance degradation and increased computational expense, potentially draining more battery.

An example of apps being heavily affected by this restriction is UTM. UTM is a port of QEMU for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, allowing users to create VMs that can run various operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows. The iPhone's hardware is capable enough to emulate various modern OSes at full speed. Still, due to Apple's JIT limitation, the team behind UTM had to create UTM SE (slow edition), which doesn't require JIT but is nowhere near as fast as UTM with JIT, only being capable of running MS-DOS and derivatives at acceptable speeds. While methods that enable JIT for apps other than Safari and Playgrounds exist (some are currently working on iOS 18.5, like StikDebug), Apple does not allow the use of JIT in notarized apps, meaning that apps that support JIT will have to be sideloaded, which comes with its own set of restrictions.

In the EU, Apple permitted web browsers to use rendering and JavaScript engines other than the built-in with Apple WebKit/JavaScriptCore, with the option for JS engines to use JIT. The browser still needs to be approved by Apple for an entitlement and must then work within the APIs provided by Apple. However, as of January 2025, no browsers using engines different from the built-in ones have been released, primarily due to arbitrarily imposed restrictions intended to discourage the use and development of third-party engines.[45]

However, Apple still does not allow different engines outside of the EU, with or without JIT support.[46]

In-app browsers

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When apps want to display web content without opening the standalone Safari browser, app developers can use Apple’s WebKit APIs, such as WKWebView. However, due to Apple’s application sandboxing and WebKit’s data-isolation model, web content loaded inside one app does not have access to Safari’s cookies, browsing history, saved sessions, or extensions, nor to data from other apps’ embedded web views. Each app’s embedded browser operates with its own isolated website data store.

As a result, web pages opened inside embedded browsers, such as those used in apps like Facebook, do not appear in Safari’s browsing history, and there is typically no persistent, user-accessible history within the app itself. Users may also be asked to sign in to the same services (for example, during OAuth login flows like Google) because cookies and session data are not shared with Safari. Additionally, Safari extensions, including content blockers, dark-mode tools, and other privacy or accessibility extensions, do not function inside embedded web views.

Apple states App Sandboxing "provides protection to system resources and user data by limiting your app’s access to resources requested through entitlements."[47] However, developers have voiced frustration with how WebKit is sandboxed which can result in degraded user experiences, such as with repeated OAuth login flows between apps.[48] Some developers have found workarounds for sharing information with the native Safari app, but it is unknown whether these methods still function in modern versions Apple's various operating systems.[49]

See also

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References

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