Rhonin the wizard on 02 September 2021
| green_sky said: This is interesting. South Korea lets developers bypass Apple and Google's app stores fees. |
That's what a lot of news sites are reporting it as, but that's not what it does. It simply doesn't allow Apple/Google to mandate the use of their payment processing. Which in practice would mean that they would now have to collect their cut from the publishers.
This could lead to Apple/Google having to audit those who would use an alternate payment processor to make sure they aren't being swindled.
Here's a lawyer going over the proposed law.
And here's an article where Tim Cook stated they would have to find new ways to collect their commision.
