Disney and major mass media jump into 'how to cut App Store fee by half'

by Sam Churchill

An industry group organized by mass media and entertainment companies has sent an open letter to Apple's CEO Tim Cook asking him to 'clear the half-appstore fee.'

Taking a bite out of Apple's trustworthy talking points-Digital Content Next
https://digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2020/08/20/taking-a-bite-out-of-apples-trust-worthy-talking-points/

News Publishers Join Fight Against Apple Over App Store Terms-WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/news-publishers-join-fight-against-apple-over-app-store-terms-11597949300S

Various companies and organizations have complained that Apple demanded up to 30% of the sales of content and apps distributed in the App Store as a commission, such as “ rip-out ” and “ prevent fair competition ”. It's gushing. Many vendors who distribute content and apps on the App Store are suffering from exorbitant fees, Amazon delivering Amazon Prime Video says ``make the App Store fee half the price'' It turned out to have been treated specially, which was a big problem.

It turned out that Apple was exchanging ``secret agreement to cut the fee by half'' only with Amazon-GIGAZINE

by Henk-Jan van der Klis

``Not only Amazon, but anyone who meets the conditions will be charged half the fee,'' Cook said when he asked the question at a hearing held by the Antitrust Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Justice on July 29, 2020. It will be.' Cook's answer is based on Apple's assertion that it 'opens its doors to everyone' and 'treats all app developers equally.'

'If anyone meets the conditions, everyone will get half the App Store fee,' jumped to the entertainment such as New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press major mass media and Disney, National Geographic etc. It is Digital Content Next (DCN) of the industry group composed of companies.

DCN CEO Jason Kint said in a public letter to Cook CEO (PDF file) , ``In response to a parliamentary question as to whether the contract (to cut the Amazon Prime Video fee by half) is available to anyone. , You answered, 'Anyone can meet the conditions'.

``Almost all DCN members are deploying apps on Apple's App Store, and the'conditions' Apple has set in its agreement with Amazon are our high-quality, reliable news,'' said Quint. It has a great influence on whether or not we can continue to make entertainment, and on behalf of DNS, I would like to know this 'condition' in more detail.'

The Wall Street Journal, an economic paper published by Dow Jones, a member of DCN, asked Apple and Amazon for comments, but it was not received at the time of writing the article.