San Francisco May 19 (IANS) A group of iOS developers has called on Apple to commit to allowing free trials for all apps in the App Stores by July while adding that it would eventually demand "reasonable revenue cut".
Apple currently receives a 30 per cent cut of what revenue developers earn from the App Store MacRumors reported on Friday.
The group which calls themselves "The Developers Union" detailed their demands in an open letter to the tech giant on Friday.
"We believe that people who create great software should be able to make a living doing it. So we created The Developers Union to advocate for sustainability in the App Store " the letter read.
"Today we are asking Apple to commit to allowing free trials for all apps in the App Stores by the tenth anniversary of the App Store this July. After that we ll start advocating for a more reasonable revenue cut and other community-driven developer-friendly changes " it said.
In its website the Developers Union explained that free trials are a great place to start and gather the momentum needed to create significant change.
"Trials allow developers to show users their creation and establish value. Before iOS Mac developers relied heavily on free trials and they were able to make a living while making great software " it added.
The group currently consists of 35 iOS developers The Verge reported on Friday.
The App Store makes up a huge portion of Apple s services business.
As such without support from big names like Amazon and Spotify it is not likely that the Developers Union will be able to make Apple concede on revenue elements of the App Store the reporrted.
The resignations came as the bishops said they placed the issue "in the hands of the Holy Father so that he might freely decide for each one of us".
Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said he had no comment on whether Pope Francis would accept the mass resignation.
In response to the resignation of the country s bishops on Friday Marie Collins a former member of the Pope s Commission for the Protection of Minors said that the gesture was not enough.
"No bishop removed -- all allowed to resign. Really nothing changes " Collins wrote on Twitter.
Pope Francis called the country s bishops to Rome after he received a 2 300-page report detailing sexual abuses by priests in Chile.
At the centre of the scandal is the Bishop of Osorno Juan Barros whom Francis appointed in 2015 amid an outcry that Barros had known about and covered up abuses.
The Pope stridently defended Bishop Barros calling accusations against him "calumny".
In an about-face in April after receiving the Vatican investigator s report the Pope said he had made "grave errors in judgment" and apologised to Chile s sex abuse victims.
In May the Pope met privately at the Vatican with three of Barros main accusers and asked their forgiveness.

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