Comment by teruakohatu

7 days ago

> Every Apple Developer Program membership includes 200GB of Apple hosting capacity for the App Store. Apple-Hosted Background Assets can be submitted separately from an app build.

Is this the first time Apple has offered something substantial for the App store fees beyond the SDK/Xcode and basic app distribution?

Is it a way to give developers a reason to limit distribution to only the official App Store, or will this be offered regardless of what store the app is downloaded from?

> Is this the first time Apple has offered something substantial for the App store fees beyond the SDK/Xcode and basic app distribution?

They've offered 25hrs/mo of Xcode Cloud build time for the last couple years.

Background Assets have existed for years. I’m not sure that 200GB figure is new.