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Apple is lowering the commission that it collects in Taiwan to 26 percent, down from 30 percent. Apple plans to drop the rate for in-app purchase and paid app transactions on the iOS and iPadOS Taiwan storefront starting on October 31.

More premium games are launching on the App Store this year than last, Apple’s ‌App Store‌ Worldwide head Carson Oliver told Polygon, including more franchises coming from PC and consoles.

Apple tightened its developer guidelines over the weekend to ban apps that use AI to create offensive content, as well as those that masquerade as regular apps to pass the App Store review process and then turn into nudify apps, or surface those features prominently.

Apple today expanded its App Store moderation rules to cover AI-generated nonconsensual intimate imagery. Sexually explicit content was already banned, but now Apple says app developers must proactively prevent and remove AI-generated deepfakes from their platforms. Apple warns that apps with offending content could be removed from the ‌App Store‌ if developers fail to act.

F-Droid, the most popular app store for free and open-. As one of the biggest critics of Google’s new sideloading restrictions in Android, F-Droid is bracing for the change with a modern interface that makes app discovery feel far less intimidating

Apple is looking at further ways to monetize the App Store and increase the company’s recurring revenue from the platform, according to a new report.