Apple Exec Phil Schiller is witnessing that it raised concerns about the application store commissions on the web -based sales

Apple colleague Vil SchillerThe official in charge of driving the application store, witnessed in the court on Monday that he originally raised concerns about a 27 % commission, planning the iPhone maker to charge the application developers on any purchases made outside the application store. In addition to being the risks of possible compliance, he suggested that the drawings will create a “hostile relationship” between Apple and developers and it seems that it requires Apple to have audit rights to verify whether it is a debtor to Apple Money with the transactions that occurred abroad or not the application store.

Apple usually imposes a 30 % commission on applications within the application, but 27 % reduced fees were the result of Epic Games-Apple. In 2021, the court decided that though The technology giant was not a monopolyThey will have to stop preventing application developers from linking other ways to customers to pay behind the Apple purchases within the application (IAP).

Apple technically complied with the judgment to change its applications for its application store to allow developers To link their locations on the web From iOS and iPados applications to give customers alternative to payment.

However, Apple reduced its commission only by 3 % of these purchases.

At that time, Fortnite Maker Epic Games Tim Sweeni summoned apples with a “bad faith” complianceSaying that the technology company undermines the 2021 order of the American boycott judge, iPhone Gonzalez Rogers, who gave developers the right to add buttons or links to other purchase mechanisms in addition to IAP from Apple.

Apple and EPIC games Since his return to the federal court So Rogers can determine whether Apple violates its original order that forced the application store to open more competition.

According to Schiller’s testimony, he initially objected to commissions on these external purchases.

“… I had great concerns about the money groups of developers,” he said, specifically, “The change in the role of the application store so far that needs to raise money from developers.”

He said that he was concerned about how the application store was subjected to followers who did not pay the committees, which made him a “kind of assembly agency” that had “governing how to deal with non -payment and whether this means” we “will have to perform developers. .

Schiller said he was concerned about “how all these things changed the relationship between Apple and developers in a way that I thought would be harmful.”

The session revealed the extensive process that Apple underwent while discussing the advantages of still fees. With the documents and email messages, the lawyers detailed with the successor in the internal Apple where executive managers estimated various options regarding their compliance with the court’s order.

Despite the initial concerns raised by Schiller, a pricing committee that included the CEO of Apple Tim Cook, former CFO Luca Maestri, and the legal team Apple, along with the Schiller, decided in the end to impose fees on developers a committee on these external purchases.

The company also decided that 3 % reduction of fees applies to developers in its small commercial program, which reduces their already reduced commission from 15 % to 12 % for transactions outside the application store.

The documents referred to in the court indicated that the Apple analyzed the financial impact on the developers who chose to connect their websites.

In one model, for example, the Apple worked on how to “less smooth experience” to use a non -AIP method that would lead customers to give up their transactions. With the modeling of this turning point, Apple was able to determine when the links will stop being an advantage of developers, which would push them to use IAP.

Apple has also found that the most restricted rules about setting and coordinating the same links can reduce the number of applications that decided to implement these external links. The company has searched the financial impact to exclude some other partners – such as those in video and news programs – from the new program.

The company weighs different options for the date for the commission. At one time, he was considering imposing 27 % fees on external purchases that occurred within 72 hours of when the link was clicked. when The new guidelines have been broadcast, However, this time frame was extended to seven days.

Lawyers suggested that Cook himself was involved in how App Store’s customer warning appears, they recommend an update of the text that appears when clicking on external links. In one version, this link warned customers that they “no longer deal with Apple”. Later, the link was skillfully updated to indicate that there may be private or safety risks with the web purchases.

In another meeting on the committees, people also expressed their concerns about the Apple Chargé dealer on the web.

One note said from the meeting: “This may be seen as we try to impose fees on what is happening on the Internet.”