In practice, it means that developers have no other choice but to publish apps to the App Store and pay either a 15% or a 30% commission on paid apps and in-app purchases (the latter applies if the developer made more than $1 million per year through the store). To an outside observer, such zeal must seem odd: Apple’s long-held policy has been to keep iOS developers and users within the confines of the App Store under the pretext that third-party software it has not verified is too dangerous from a privacy and security standpoint. Gurman wrote that Apple was “applying a significant amount of resources to the companywide endeavor”, an indication that Cupertino sees dismantling its own closed App Store ecosystem a priority. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that the change could be implemented in iOS 17. Apple has built a walled garden with its App Store, and now is reportedly preparing to raze one of its walls by allowing users to download apps bypassing the official store.
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