Amazon followed in the footsteps of Apple and Google in the reduction of App Store fees for the smaller developers. The e-commerce giant announced that it would reduce the developer commission that earn less than $ 1 million a year. From the fourth quarter of this year, this will reduce its 30% to 20% reduction as part of its new Amazon AppStore accelerator program. In addition, the company gives the eligible developers AWS promotional credits amounting to 10% of their income.
Apple has introduced a new policy that lowers its commission rate from 30% to 20% in December for the smallest developers winning less than a million dollars a year. The technology giant made the shift after more and more companies were talking about having to pay a commission of 30%, with epic games leading up. He led to the Epic VS trial. Apple, in which a judge asked Tim Cook on an investigation in which 39% of his developers said they were not satisfied with the distribution of society.
Meanwhile, Google also announced in March that it reduces its role-playing commission rate to 15% by 30% as of July 1st. Given that the new policy will apply to developers who win less than one million income a year, Google said 99% of Android developers will benefit from change.
As AFTVNews said, Amazon will always take a larger reduction than Apple and Google. However, developers could have a better deal with the company if they already spend more than 10% of their income on AWS fees.
