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Title: Apple will cut App Store fees for video streaming apps by half Post by: HCK on November 21, 2016, 04:05:13 pm Apple will cut App Store fees for video streaming apps by half
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Cupertino is ready to give a big tax break to video services that are sold via the App Store.</p><p>Apple is lowering the cut it takes from selling video streaming subscriptions down from 30 percent to 15 percent, according to Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/apple-is-said-to-cut-fees-video-services-will-pay-for-app-store). This is Apple’s latest move to try to get video partners for the launch of its new TV app (http://www.macworld.com/article/3136161/hardware/apples-new-tv-app-puts-all-the-shows-and-movies-you-want-to-watch-in-one-spot.html) for discovering content on the Apple TV. Previously, Apple has hit major roadblocks while negotiating with networks (http://www.macworld.com/article/3101830/streaming-services/wsj-apples-shot-at-launching-a-tv-streaming-service-hurt-by-its-own-difficult-demands.html) over the price of offering a mini-bundled TV package (http://www.macworld.com/article/3013039/streaming-services/apples-tv-streaming-service-is-on-pause-says-cbs-exec.html).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3142786/software/apple-will-cut-app-store-fees-for-video-streaming-apps-by-half.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Apple will cut App Store fees for video streaming apps by half (http://www.macworld.com/article/3142786/software/apple-will-cut-app-store-fees-for-video-streaming-apps-by-half.html#tk.rss_all) |