{"id":1029631,"date":"2026-08-19T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029631"},"modified":"2026-08-19T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:30:58","slug":"apple-changes-fees-for-alternative-app-stores-in-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/apple-changes-fees-for-alternative-app-stores-in-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple changes fees for alternative app stores in EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STOCKHOLM: Apple said on Tuesday it will charge a 5% commission on digital transactions in apps distributed outside its App Store, replacing a more complex system as it seeks to comply with the European Union&#8217;s Digital Markets Act. <\/p>\n<p>The company last year changed App Store rules and fees in the EU after the bloc&#8217;s antitrust regulators ordered it to remove \u200ccommercial barriers that \u2060they said \u2060hindered developers from directing customers outside the store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STOCKHOLM: Apple said on Tuesday it will charge a 5% commission on digital transactions in apps distributed outside its App Store, replacing a more complex system as it seeks to comply with the European Union&#8217;s Digital Markets Act. The company last year changed App Store rules and fees in the EU after the bloc&#8217;s antitrust regulators ordered it to remove \u200ccommercial barriers that \u2060they said \u2060hindered developers from directing customers outside the store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029650,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029631\/revisions\/1029650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}