App Store

Elon Musk criticized Apple on Monday night, accusing the company of stacking the App Store in OpenAI’s favour, specifically the promotion of the latter’s app ChatGPT. “Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation,”...

Apple has revamped its App Store age ratings with new 13+, 16+, and 18+ categories, giving parents better tools and developers stricter content rules.

EU regulators are likely to approve Apple’s App Store updates, helping the company avoid potential €50M daily fines under the Digital Markets Act.

ByteDance is reported to be launching a US-specific version of TikTok in the coming months.

Apple has announced sweeping updates to its App Store operations across the European Union to adhere to the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Apple is negotiating last-minute changes to its App Store to avoid escalating EU fines under the Digital Markets Act, with key DMA deadlines looming.

Apple's App Store enabled $1.3 trillion in developer sales in 2024, with over 90% commission-free, highlighting its role in global digital commerce.

Apple has lost a key legal bid to delay changes to its App Store rules, after a U.S. appeals court rejected the company’s request to pause a federal judge’s order. The decision stems from Apple’s ongoing antitrust fight with Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that...

In 2024, Apple's U.S. App Store facilitated $406B in developer sales, with small developers' earnings up 76% and over 90% of transactions commission-free.

Apple says it stopped more than $2 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions on its App Store in 2024, as part of its ongoing efforts to crack down on scams and bad apps. The company also claims it prevented nearly 2 million risky apps from ever reaching users last year. Over the past five years, Apple...

Apple funded a "sham" economic study and had at least one of its executives lie on the stand to defend the company's up-to-30% commission on in-app purchases

Apple earned more than $10 billion USD (about $14 billion CAD) in U.S. App Store commissions during 2024, according to market intelligence firm Appfigures