News Summary

• "Developers will be forced to reckon with a whole new reality of app distribution that they've barely begun to grasp.As Epic Games' Sweeney put it: "It will take more time to parse both the written and unwritten parts of this new horror show, so stay tuned.".
• The fee means that apps sold from its App Store or third-party marketplaces will have to pay "€0.50 for each first annual install per year over a 1 million threshold..
• "Using Apple's own fee calculator, he estimated that companies that made $10 million in sales from 10 million customers would result in an annual cut of $6.2 million for Apple..
• Apple said this was "to ensure marketplace developers commit to ongoing requirements that help protect users and developers.".
• Apple's absolute rule over the App Store has just been broken for the first time since its launch in 2008.Are developers celebrating?.
• Second, Apple's cut on transactions will drop from 30% to 17%, with an extra 3% fee for use of its payment processing.As my colleague Peter Kafka writes, this has all made Apple quite unhappy..