{"id":135277,"date":"2025-12-16T21:54:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/25\/12\/16\/app-developers-escalate-eu-fight-over-apples-app-store-fees"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:54:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:54:33","slug":"app-developers-escalate-eu-fight-over-apples-app-store-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/16\/app-developers-escalate-eu-fight-over-apples-app-store-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"App developers escalate EU fight over Apple’s App Store fees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A coalition of developers has petitioned the European Commission, saying Apple’s revised App Store<\/a> fees continue to disadvantage EU apps.\n<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, 20 app developers and consumer groups have petitioned the European Commission in an attempt to knock down Apple’s commission fees even further. They argue that the fee structure puts their apps at a disadvantage compared to their U.S. rivals.\n<\/p>\n

The Coalition for Apps Fairness (CAF) is made up of companies, including Astropad, Epic Games, Masimo, Life360, Proton, Spotify, and more. Many of these companies have waged war<\/a> on Apple both on and off U.S. soil. <\/p>\n

“This situation is untenable<\/a> and damaging to the app economy,” CAF said in a statement, first spotted by<\/a> Reuters<\/em>. The coalition argues that Apple “continues to flout compliance with EU law,” and takes issue that Apple has not disclosed the new terms for 2026. <\/p>\n

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2 Developers are held hostage: Apple is dangling unknown new terms for 2026, creating uncertainty for Europe’s innovators.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Coalition for App Fairness (@appfairness) December 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

In July,<\/a> Apple replaced its Core Technology Fee (CTE) with a series of other fees. The CTE had developers pay Apple 27% of their App Store earnings to cover the company’s hosting and distribution costs.\n<\/p>\n

The fees Apple proposed were an Acquisition Fee, Store Services Fee, and CTE or Commission. <\/p>\n

The Acquisition Fee is 2% on sales of digital goods and services, for up to six months from a user’s initial download. The Store Services Fee pays for the platform, and varies between 5% and 13%, with discounts for small businesses and others.\n<\/p>\n

Currently, it isn’t clear whether Apple’s shuffling of fees was enough to placate<\/a> the European Commission. What is clear, though, is that EU developers don’t pass on App Store fee savings to users,<\/a> despite App Store rates falling roughly 10%. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A coalition of developers has petitioned the European Commission, saying Apple’s revised App Store fees continue to disadvantage EU apps. On Tuesday, 20 app developers and consumer groups have petitioned the European Commission in an attempt to knock down Apple’s commission fees even further. They argue that the fee structure puts their apps at a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}