Some iPhone Developers Claim They Can’t Get Paid

Lonnie Lazar ()

A vocal cadre of iPhone app developers is none too pleased with the treatment they receive from Apple and may be considering a suit for breach of contract, according to a report at TechCrunch.

Examples of complaints on developer forums indicate that some developers remain unpaid for sales of their products on the App Store dating back to last fall and the report cites email exchanges between at least one developer and and the finance department at Apple in which the developer is informed his complaints about not being paid “border on harassment.”

Whether any actual lawsuits are in the offing is purely speculative at this point, but the discord is curious in the light of Apple’s recent recession-beating revenue performance and the stunning, widely publicized success of the App Store.

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Lonnie Lazar

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  • hrgpac

    If you have trying to get paid in 4 months and you get this answer:

    Hello

    Please stop emailing us. Your 22 emails in the past two days is bordering harassment. We receive a thousand emails a day, and will respond as soon as we can.

    Kind regards,

     Dean Migchelbrink | iTunes Finance | Apple Inc

    What would you do?

  • Albe

    I’d send an email to (sorry, you need Javascript to see this e-mail address).

    I've personally received emails from Dean -- he likes to whine about how busy his team is.

  • Scott

    first off, maybe his team is busy. considering how popular the app store has been it’s not out of the question
    second, 22 emails in two days is a bit much. perhaps to say ‘bordering on harassment’ is a stretch but really. And I see nothing that suggests that the complainers didn’t try to settle things in a nice manner. the tone is all “give me my money, bitch” instead of “it seems that my payment for December sales didn’t not go through to my bank account. could you please confirm that it was sent and provide me with what documentation I need to show the failure and who I should send it to. thank you for your assistance”. that touch of courtesy is always appreciated by a busy office. and often will get you higher up the queue for a reply