A group of 48 Chinese developers is asking regulators to investigate Apple over what it describes as unfairly high App Store fees and restrictive distribution rules. Here are the details.
Chinese developers ask for more flexibility and reduced rates
As reported by the South China Morning Post (via AppleInsider), the developers filed a complaint with China’s State Administration for Market Regulation and published an open letter accusing Apple of abusing its market dominance by imposing unfairly high App Store fees.
From the report:
The developers asked the antitrust regulator to investigate and penalise Apple for allegedly “abusing the company’s market dominance” to implement “unfair and excessively high” costs on local creators, according to the letter published by one of the developers, Tian Junwei, on his WeChat blog on Monday.
