In response to a Dutch ruling about dating apps.
in the country last year. South Korea’s new rules are due to be fully fleshed out by March 15th, at which point it’ll be clear exactly what platform holders like Apple and Google will need to do to comply with the law., dating app developers in the Netherlands can now apply to use the alternative payment systems. They can choose between offering a third-party payment system within the app’s interface, or linking out to an external website to complete a purchase.
, who called the commission rate “absolutely vile” and said that “everybody on their executive team should be ashamed.” Apple’s proposed solution — like requiring separate binaries, developers having to report external sales back to Apple, and that meager 3 percent savings — might be too much effort for too little benefit for developers to bother using anything but Apple’s own payment system.reported that a South Korean official expressed concerns about the barriers platform holders like Apple and Google may use to dissuade developers from using alternative payment systems.
South Korea and the Netherlands are just two proxy battles in a wider wave of antitrust scrutiny of Apple and Google’s app store policies. Last year in the US, a judge ordered Apple to allow developers to
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