Apple’s 27% App Store fee an attempt to comply with law, senior exec says

A senior Apple Inc. executive told a US judge that the iPhone maker’s new 27 per cent fee on purchases made outside its App Store are a good-faith attempt to comply with the law.

“We are trying to enable what the law requires,” Apple Fellow Philip Schiller said Friday during the fourth day of a hearing focused on Apple’s compliance. “There was mentioned in the order about if Apple has a right to a fee even without” developers using its in-app payment system.

Schiller, a long-time executive who helped develop the App Store, is the most senior executive to testify at the hearing before US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California.