What the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other newspapers ask of Apple

Apple under attack: New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and other news outlets want the same treatment as Amazon Prime

All against Apple. Almost. New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and other newspapers ask Apple to lower the percentage it retains on Apple Store subscriptions.

All the details.

APPLE TAKES 30% OF PURCHASES

Apple, writes the New York Times , retains 30% of the revenues generated by most subscriptions via the App Store. The rate drops to 15% only for the second season tickets.

THE FAVORITE TREATMENT: AMAZON PRIME

At the end of July (on the 29th, exactly), a communication between the Apple veteran, Eddy Cue, and the CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, was disclosed in the US Senate committee, in which the two companies agreed a 15% revenue sharing agreement for new customer signups to Prime Video via the app store.

EDITORS: "WE MEET THE SAME CONDITIONS AS AMAZON"

The "discount", Apple explained, is up to those who meet certain requirements. Publishers, we read in a letter from publishers to Apple, published by Digital Content Next (DCN), representing the newspapers, write that "they should qualify for the same terms offered to Amazon."

And for this they ask Tim Cook "to clearly define the conditions that Amazon has fulfilled for its agreement, so that the companies represented by DCN that meet these conditions can receive the same treatment," the letter reads.

THE FORTNITE CASE

The request comes at a very special time for Apple and its Apple Store. In recent days, as written on this site, Fortnite has rebelled against the policies of Apple (but also of Google) by announcing a payment system that bypassed digital stores.

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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/cosa-chiedono-new-york-times-wall-street-journal-ed-altri-giornali-ad-apple/ on Sat, 22 Aug 2020 13:49:45 +0000.