The Mini Apps Partner Program, as it’s called, takes a 15 per cent cut of in-app purchases for mini apps and games, Apple said on Friday. That’s essentially a reduced rate from the usual 30 per cent fee developers are charged when Apple processes payments.

The idea behind the new programme is to offer developers a lower fee in exchange for using some of Apple ’s technologies to build their apps, including Apple software to register a user’s purchase history, verify ages, and process in-app purchases.

Apple describes a mini app as a lightweight piece of software inside a third-party app store that’s built using web technologies like HTML5 and JavaScript and distributed within a larger native app. The technology has been supported on the App Store for nearly a decade, but this is the fi

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