No major app developers have signed up to use outside payment options that Apple Inc. introduced earlier this year for its App Store because the fees they pay would be at least as high as they were before, according to testimony presented to a federal judge.
According to Apple, only 38 developers have applied to add such links — out of roughly 65,000 that could.
Seems like Apple’s convoluted guidelines around external payment systems is working out for them.
E: added link to said guidelines.