Snapchat: Happy to pay a 30 percent commission to Apple

Not all IT giants face the legal dispute between Epic Games and Apple over the App Store against the iPhone group. Snapchat, among the most popular social media offerings in the top 5 in many countries, has now been explicitly praised by Apple. Its CEO, Evan Spiegel from the parent company Snap, said in an interview that it was “happy” to pay Apple’s 30 percent commission for in-app sales, which it has been demanding for over a decade. “Naturally happy” In the conversation with the US stock market transmitter CNBC The 30-year-old manager said that Snapchat “would not exist without the iPhone and without the fantastic platform that Apple created”. In this sense, he is not sure whether the company has “a choice” to pay the fee. “And of course we’re happy to be doing that in return for all of this fantastic technology that [Apple] supplies us in the field of software and also in the field of hardware advances “. Snap is also “in agreement” with Apple regarding its new ATT anti-tracking function. This was sharply criticized by Facebook, among others. Snap began almost ten years ago to protect the privacy of its users – but this was…
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