Apple Settles Brazilian Antitrust Case, Must Allow Third-Party App Stores and External Payment Links (macrumors.com)
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- News link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/12/26/0039248/apple-settles-brazilian-antitrust-case-must-allow-third-party-app-stores-and-external-payment-links
- Source link: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/24/new-app-store-fee-structure-in-brazil/
Brazil's Administrative Council of Economic Defense approved the settlement this week, resolving an investigation that began in 2022 into whether Apple's restrictions on app distribution and payments limited competition. Under the new rules, developers can offer third-party payment methods within their apps alongside Apple's own system. The fee structure varies: purchases through Apple's system remain subject to a 10% or 25% commission plus a 5% transaction fee. Apps that include a clickable link to external payment will face a 15% fee, while static text directing users elsewhere incurs no charge. Third-party app stores will pay a 5% Core Technology Commission.
[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/24/new-app-store-fee-structure-in-brazil/
Twice in two days, too (Score:2)
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[1] https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/2055236/apple-to-allow-alternative-app-stores-for-ios-users-in-brazil
cider (Score:2)
Portugee know to make quality cider you must squeeze the Apple very very very hard ....
As a consumer..... (Score:2)
The last thing I bought on my phone through Apple's App Store was $30.
At 30%, that's supposedly as much as $4.50 "extra" that I might not have paid through another App Store. Supposing I could have saved as much as half buying elsewhere, that's barely $2.
Two lousy dollars. Why am I going to enter all of my payment info and deal with some other vendor for two lousy dollars?! I wouldn't. Not ever. If nothing else, I'm too lazy. As a consumer, I'm just not interested in other payment mechanisms.
Re: (Score:2)
Then don't worry your pretty little head with things like this. It doesn't sound like anyone is going to stop you from continuing to pay.
Four weeks, twenty papers, that’s $2 dollar (Score:2)
Four weeks, twenty papers, that’s $2 dollars.
Ironic! (Score:2)
I agree loosely with monitoring and regulating Apple's almost monopoly. However, it's rather ironic because Brazil is practically the very definition of stifling competition. They have huge tariffs, much worse than anything the US has ever experienced, and they have exceptionally tight import/export restrictions.
And it's also weird because almost no Brazilian can even afford an iPhone. The cost of one new there is more than twice the cost in North America because there are so many laws and people to bribe t
allowing non Webkit in all areas that hard? (Score:2)
allowing non Webkit in all areas that hard?