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Apple cuts China App Store commission fees

Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores

Google is officially doing away with its 30 percent cut of Play Store transactions, and rolling out changes to how third-party app stores and alternate billing systems will be handled by Android.

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Apple cuts China App Store commission fees after government pressure

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Apple cuts China App Store fees to fend off local regulators

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Apple Cuts App Store Fees in China as Regulatory Scrutiny Intensifies

Apple AAPL -1.94% is lowering the fees it collects from app developers in China, a rare move aimed at defusing a brewing regulatory showdown in its most important international market.

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Apple Slashes App Store Fees in China, New Commission Rates for Developers Take Effect March 15

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Apple's App Store in China gets lower 25% commission to appease regulators

Alternative app store AltStore PAL is joining the fediverse

AltStore PAL, the alternative iOS app store available in the European Union and Japan, is joining the social web. In a post on Wednesday, AltStore PAL announced that users across Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky can now interact with apps that developers choose to federate on its explore.alt.store website.

Apple ran a test on the App Store to see if AI could improve search result rankings

Apple researchers ran an A/B test to measure how AI-generated relevance labels would affect App Store search rankings and app downloads.

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Anthropic’s Claude hits No. 1 in the App Store as users drop Chat GPT over recent news

It’s not every day an AI app leapfrogs to No. 1 in the App Store — especially when it’s overtaking the category’s biggest name. But that’s exactly what happened when Anthropic’s Claude climbed to the top of Apple’s rankings, edging out ChatGPT.

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Alternative app store AltStore PAL joins the fediverse

AltStore PAL now supports the fediverse, using its own Mastodon server to let iOS developers share app updates and alerts across platforms like Mastodon and Threads.

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App Store gaming revenue hit $52.5B in 2025, topping Google Play and Steam combined: report

Sensor Tower has published a new report with a comprehensive review of how mobile gaming performed in 2025, and its outlook for 2026.