The other day the company Apple has closed the Apple Store in Russia to make changes to the prices of products and applications sold in the country, the massive fluctuations of the currency exchange rate are the basis of this decision taken by those from Cupertino. Today Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), officially announced that the price of applications in the App Store increased again due to the decreasing value of the national currency, the ruble, so that during 2014 Apple doubled the price of applications sold in its virtual application store.
The App Store price change was made without the online store being closed during these changes, so no one knew what Apple was doing, and overnight the new prices were published, with an email being sent to app developers to announce everything. Together with the price of the applications, the price of the in-app purchases available for the applications also increased, so that users will have to pay twice as much for them than on January 2, everything having to do with the political-military position of Russia during 1.
Separated from the App Store, the Apple Store Russia remains closed as Apple continues to increase the prices of the products sold in its online store, but in this case we probably won't be talking about such a radical increase as in the case of applications. Even so, Apple was forced to change the prices of its products because an iPhone ended up being sold in Russia cheaper than in the USA, and this because the value of the ruble fell so much below that of the dollar without Apple changing the official prices, Russians having the opportunity to buy Apple products very cheap.
Separated from Russia, from January 1, Apple will increase the prices of applications from the App Storein Europe and in this article I have explained everything that this change will entail.
