App Store increases the selling prices of apps: here’s how much applications cost from today, depending on the price tiers.
A negative surprise this morning for those preparing to purchase one or more apps on the App Store: prices have increased.
Prices have all been readjusted upwards, starting with applications in the “first price tier”, which are those costing 79 euro cents: from today, the minimum price has instead risen to 89 euro cents.
That something was happening became clear when, during the night, iTunes Connect showed no signs of normal operation.
It was thought to be periodic ordinary maintenance operations on the system, but upon the service’s restart, the submitted and proposed changes were noticed.
Prices have therefore been modified upwards, and not only for the least expensive apps: the same thing – proportionally – has happened for the more expensive apps, with increases of up to 1 euro.
In summary, these are the differences between the previously proposed prices and the current ones: apps priced at €1.59 now cost €1.79; those at €2.39 are now €2.69; further up, from €2.99 to €3.59; from €3.99 to €4.49; from €4.99 to €5.49; from €5.49 to €5.99; from €5.99 to €6.99; from €6.99 to €7.99; and finally, those that used to cost €7.99 now cost €8.99.
This is not the only novelty: users in some countries can now pay in local currency and no longer just in dollars, as was the case with the App Stores in Turkey, Indonesia, South Africa, India, Israel, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
The profit proportions on app sales remain unchanged: developers continue to receive 30% and Apple 70%.
The price increase, apparently, has so far only affected European App Stores.
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