Apple is about to get a financial windfall from China WeChat Mini users

After decades of complaints about it, Apple will finally get a commission from in-app purchases made from iPhone Games distributed via WeChat — the massive Chinese social media app owned by Tencent.

WeChat on iPhone

Apple has its own store on Tencent’s WeChat, and the two companies have previously agreed terms over users abilities to send money to one another as tips. However, the issue is that WeChat works as a single, enormous, multi-function super-app.

Where US users are used to buying individual games as apps on the App Store, Chinese users do just about everything through this single WeChat app. It’s not just about messaging, it’s an entire app ecosystem that Apple was not getting any revenue from.

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