Apple App Store Brazil Alternative App Stores: What Developers Pay
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Gadget HacksApple App Store Brazil Alternative App Stores: What Developers Paygadgethacks.comApple App Store Brazil Alternative App Stores: What Developers Pay Apple has opened iOS to rival app stores and alternative payment processors in Brazil and structured the terms so it collects a fee on every digital transaction, whether or not its store or payment system touches the sale. The changes took effect yesterday with iOS 26.5. All alternative distribution must run through an Apple-authorized marketplace; every app distributed outside the App Store still passes through Apple's Notarization process, a combination of automated scans and human review, per Apple's announcement. The rollout follows a cease-and-desist agreement Apple signed with CADE, Brazil's competition authority, last December, ending a three-year investigation into Apple's mandatory payment processing and anti-steering rules. CADE's tribunal had described Apple's model as a "closed and vertically integrated ecosystem" that compelled developers to rely on the App Store and locked consumers in through s
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