Apple Increasing App Store Prices For All European Union Territories and Canada

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Posted January 7, 2015 at 10:22pm by iClarified Staff

Apple has notified developers that within the next 36 hours, all prices on the App Store will increase in all European Union territories as well as in Canada and Norway; however, App Store Prices will decrease in Iceland, and change in Russia.

The changes are being made to account for adjustments in value-added tax rates as well as foreign exchange rates that fluctuate.

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Within the next 36 hours, prices on the App Store will increase for all territories in the European Union as well as in Canada and Norway, decrease in Iceland, and change in Russia. These changes are being made to account for adjustments in value-added tax (VAT) rates and foreign exchange rates.

We will simultaneously update the Pricing Matrix in Rights and Pricing in My Apps on iTunes Connect.

We will also update the iOS Paid Applications and Mac OS X Paid Applications agreements, which will be available in Agreements, Tax, and Banking.

If you have any questions, contact us.

Regards

The App Store team

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lepaka - January 8, 2015 at 7:51am

it is fair that Apple (an all others) have a base price similar in all the countries world wide, and on top comes the country taxes. what is not fair is that for a iPhone in US i payed 650Euros and in my country Apple sell it for 730Euros also before taxes. that is why exists and will be always propagate the black markets, with ios apps are different because you dont have a choice, you can buy only in the country you have your credit card registred, with osx apps we still have mostly the developer web site that usualy has their apps available for sale.

tng - January 8, 2015 at 5:26am

This is a very common business price changes everywhere and every company. Why are they making a big deal? It's base on actually dollar amount.

shar - January 8, 2015 at 9:18am

that is true if you are paying taxes for app sales in that country! plus many app were already more expensive, eg in many cases apps costing $0.99 would cost ~€0.99

Techno - January 9, 2015 at 8:20am

Absolutely, it's a very common practice with every company who knows how to properly count their books. With each changes of the dollar and taxes, you will changes in prices. The sad part is that it's cause mostly by economic changes.

Jacek - January 8, 2015 at 4:14am

Apple looks for the money they didn't make in Russian marketas budgeted for 2014.

Sä - January 8, 2015 at 3:49am

Why Canada :(

tng - January 8, 2015 at 4:54am

if you pay triple for gas you already own over the neighboring country and over 50% of your earnings why not pay a little more on apps?

What142 - January 8, 2015 at 3:05am

So we at apple don't make enough money and will be passing the savings on to you!

gamerscul9870 - January 8, 2015 at 3:15am

Or we Apple crew does what everyone else does for prices. You know, because euros is higher than us money in coins. Makes sense.

areilly111 - January 8, 2015 at 2:56am

That's frustrating. First they add taxes and then this

gamerscul9870 - January 8, 2015 at 2:59am

at least it's not the U.S.!

areilly111 - January 8, 2015 at 3:26am

Just wait. It'll happen

cloud - January 8, 2015 at 12:06am

UK vat hasn't changed, shocking

samt65 - January 7, 2015 at 11:53pm

why canada is being punished!!!

TPC - January 8, 2015 at 4:00pm

It's not about Canada or any other place, it's just that we are Greedy. Regards

gamerscul9870 - January 7, 2015 at 11:13pm

Must've been warned about the app creators putting more content in them. At least we often get free app of the weeks every now and then.

justabrake - January 7, 2015 at 11:04pm

Iclarified please fix the iOS iPad webpage, the header is partially missing !