Apple is top funder of lobby group that says it represents small developers
&gt; One bill opposed by the App Association is the Open App Markets Act, which aimed to help app developers use alternative in-app payment systems and avoid Apple&#x27;s standard cuts of 15 to 30 percent.<p>The cut is a <i>platform fee</i>, and collecting it via the in-app payment system is <i>mechanism</i>, not policy.<p>The core issue is Apple&#x27;s rate: although it is usually comparable to rates on other game platforms (eShop, Google Play, Steam...), (some) game and app developers want it reduced so that they receive a higher percentage of an app&#x27;s retail price.<p>The largely unfounded expectation that some developers seem to have is that changing IAP payment methods will cause Apple&#x27;s platform fee to drop to zero, rather than causing Apple to simply collect it by other means.<p>Edit: for some reason people are responding to me with complaints about Apple&#x27;s policies and downvoting me because they don&#x27;t like Apple&#x27;s platform fees. I&#x27;m trying to shed some light on what is actually going on: a dispute over platform fee rates. This is something that much of the media coverage doesn&#x27;t seem to be getting right.