Apple prepares large App Store price hike in Europe and elsewhere

Apple has announced a large imminent price hike on the App Store in a large number of countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. In one case this increase will be more than 30 percent.The increase will take place on October 5 and will apply to the existing pricing tiers: In the Euro zone, for example, the lowest (non-free) tier will increase from €0.99 to €1.19. Developers are free to compensate for the higher tier prices by dropping their apps to a lower tier, but may n