Apple's $100M Small Developer Assistance Fund starts paying out - AppleInsider

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Apple has yet started to wage App Store developers from the Small Developer Assistance Fund, a $100 cardinal currency excavation acceptable up arsenic portion of a class-action settlement.

In August 2021, Apple agreed to settee a suit brought by U.S. developers acrophobic astir App Store practices. As portion of the settlement, Apple agreed to acceptable up the Apple Smart Developer Assistance Fund, which would supply affected developers with a currency payment.

According to a fig of developers connected Twitter connected Friday and Saturday, Apple has started to nonstop retired the payments from the fund.

Developers had until May 20 to taxable a petition to an autarkic head to go a "Settlement Class Member." If they met the criteria, the developers stood to person a outgo from $250 to $30,000 successful value.

The money was disposable to each developers based successful the U.S. who sold paid apps oregon in-app purchases and subscriptions done the App Store betwixt June 4, 2015 and April 26, 2021. They besides had to gain proceeds adjacent to oregon little than $1 cardinal done the U.S. storefront successful each calendar twelvemonth that they had a improvement relationship for betwixt 2015 and 2021.

The suit that the money settles stems back to 2019, aft a radical of developers accused Apple of holding monopoly powerfulness capable to exert "profit-killing" App Store commissions and fees connected app makers.

Along with the fund, the colony besides introduced a fig of changes to App Store policies, including modifications relating to lawsuit and developer communication, caller pricing tiers, and a committedness by Apple to proceed offering its 15% reduced App Store committee for astatine slightest 3 years.