87% app makers don't pay for Apple store, 97% for Google Play: Report

Apple and Google charge up to 30% commission from software developers

Contrary to popular perception, only 0.08 per cent or just 17 of the 21,000 Indian apps or app developers who are live on the Apple Store pay 30 per cent commission to the company. The majority — 87 per cent — of the developers on the Store do not pay any commission, according to Apple executives who deposed before a parliamentary standing committee on finance looking into ‘anti-competitive practices by Big Tech companies’.  

This information was contained in the committee’s report published in late December.

Google told the committee that only 3 per cent of Indian developers on its Play Store paid