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20 November 2010
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Many of us were thrilled when Rage for the iPhone and iPad was announced in the past couple of days. Even more so when it appeared on the Australian iTunes store ahead of almost every other iTunes store...leading, ironically, to numerous news items that the app was available on the Australian and New Zealand stores (see here and here for example). How wrong they were. Not only is Rage not available on the iTunes App store for New Zealand, but Id Software in general is sorely lacking (see here). Now Id Software's John Carmack has posted on what he believes the issue is on the Touch Arcade website...and it seems to be tax related.
Keep in mind that who owns and distributes Rage is a complex issue. You'll see Zenimax mentioned in the post, who are the owners of Id Software. Carmack comments...
Here is the deal on why some regions don't get I'd products on the app store, as it was explained to me a couple weeks ago. This is third hand, so it might not even be correct.
For most regions, Apple automatically deals with a lot of local taxation issues, but some regions require the developer to file local taxes on the profits generated there. Im sure a lot of developers just completely ignore those issues, but a company like Zenimax is scrupulously above board on issues like that, and they have made the decision that they would rather forgo the revenue from those regions than bring in the additional paperwork. I will be mentioning it when I am at corporate HQ next week, but it isn't an issue that I am going to try to raise a stink about.
It would be ideal for Apple to solve it once for the thousands of iOS developers, even if it was at a modest surcharge.
John Carmack
His post can be found at http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?p=1424549#post1424549
If I can bring you any more information from the companies involved, I will update this news item.
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