{"id":55176,"date":"2014-04-01T13:13:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T11:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=55176"},"modified":"2014-04-01T13:32:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T11:32:27","slug":"price-hike-for-sa-itunes-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/55176\/price-hike-for-sa-itunes-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Price hike for SA iTunes App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has notified application developers that it will increase retail prices in its App Store for five currencies, including Rand, within the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>These changes were made to account for changes in foreign exchange rates, Apple\u2019s e-mail to its App Store customer base said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the e-mail, retail prices will be increased for the following currencies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Australian Dollar<\/li>\n<li>Indian Rupee<\/li>\n<li>Indonesian Rupiah<\/li>\n<li>Turkish Lira<\/li>\n<li>South African Rand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Retail prices for Israeli New Shekels and some price tiers for the New Zealand Dollar will be decreased, Apple said.<\/p>\n<p>Developers decide on prices for their apps based on certain pre-set tiers, which means that developers whose apps are currently on pricing tier 2 or higher could still select a lower tier to reduce (or eliminate) the effects of the increase.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that only pricing in the App Store will be affected and not the iTunes music, movie, or book stores.<\/p>\n<p>Asked for comment on the retail price adjustments, Apple provided the following statement: \u201cWe made some minor pricing adjustments due to changes in foreign exchange rates and local tax laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">This article first appeared on <a title=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/99760-apple-app-store-price-increase-for-south-africa.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/99760-apple-app-store-price-increase-for-south-africa.html\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Apple and iTunes<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"iTunes gift codes on FNB\u2019s banking app\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/50562\/itunes-gift-codes-on-fnbs-banking-app\/\"><strong>iTunes gift codes on FNB\u2019s banking app<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Apple brings games to SA iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/47789\/apple-brings-games-to-sa-itunes\/\"><strong>Apple brings games to SA iTunes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has notified application developers that it will increase retail prices in its App Store for five currencies, including Rand, within the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[51,26,3348],"class_list":["post-55176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-headline","tag-itunes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55179,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55176\/revisions\/55179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}