On July 29, Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook will face questions from US lawmakers about whether the iPhone maker's App Store practices give it unfair power over independent software developers.
Apple tightly controls the App Store, which forms the centrepiece of its US$46.3bil-per-year (RM196.64bil) services business. Developers have criticised Apple's commissions of between 15% and 30% on many App Store purchases, its prohibitions on courting customers for outside signs-ups, and what some developers see as an opaque and unpredictable app-vetting process.