{"id":998248,"date":"2026-03-14T08:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998248"},"modified":"2026-03-14T09:01:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:31:44","slug":"apple-cuts-china-app-store-commission-fees-after-government-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/14\/apple-cuts-china-app-store-commission-fees-after-government-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple cuts China App Store commission fees after government pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: Apple said on Thursday it would lower the commission fees collected by the company from its App Store in mainland China in a huge win for Chinese developers following apparent pressure from regulators in the U.S. tech giant&#8217;s second-largest market. <\/p>\n<p>Fees for in-app purchases and paid transactions will be lowered to 25% from 30% starting on Sunday, the California-headquartered company said in a statement on its website. In-app purchase transactions for developers belonging to Apple&#8217;s small business and mini apps partner programmes will be cut to 12% from 15%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: Apple said on Thursday it would lower the commission fees collected by the company from its App Store in mainland China in a huge win for Chinese developers following apparent pressure from regulators in the U.S. tech giant&#8217;s second-largest market. Fees for in-app purchases and paid transactions will be lowered to 25% from 30% starting on Sunday, the California-headquartered company said in a statement on its website. In-app purchase transactions for developers belonging to Apple&#8217;s small business and mini apps partner programmes will be cut to 12% from 15%.<\/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-998248","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\/998248","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=998248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}