{"id":62991,"date":"2014-04-01T13:13:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T11:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62991"},"modified":"2014-04-01T13:34:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T11:34:31","slug":"sa-price-increase-incoming-on-apple-itunes-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/62991-sa-price-increase-incoming-on-apple-itunes-store","title":{"rendered":"SA price increase incoming on Apple iTunes store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has notified application developers that it will increase retail prices in its App Store for 5 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: &#8220;We made some minor pricing adjustments due to changes in foreign exchange rates and local tax laws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"MyBroadband\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/99760-apple-app-store-price-increase-for-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Article courtesy of MyBroadband<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62982-pc-format-sa-is-shutting-down.html\">PC Format SA is shutting down<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62967-xbox-games-with-gold-for-april-2014.html\">Xbox Games With Gold for April 2014<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62937-alien-isolation-release-date-announced.html\">Alien: Isolation release date announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>App Store developers have been warned of retail price hikes for 5 currencies, including South African Rand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":50205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,959,1309],"class_list":["post-62991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-itunes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}