# Apple Asked for 15 Percent of Web Purchases

> The court said necessary costs. Apple said fifteen. Epic said zero.

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Beat: Tech
Published: August 16, 2026
Source title: Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store
Source URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/14/apple-proposes-to-take-a-15-cut-of-purchases-made-outside-the-app-store/
Tags: apple, epic, app-store, commission

## Article

You cannot be serious. Apple told a California court it wants 15 percent of purchases that finish on the open web, after admitting the Ninth Circuit's 'necessary costs' would be essentially zero. You compared yourself to Google Play and asked for a cut of a link. That's the pose. The web was supposed to be the door. Don't take fifteen off the web.

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