Apple to increase frequency of pay for iOS developers

I am really happy with the change. I have an App that is fairly Australian centric but had sold a few apps in other countries, I was never planning on this happening but now I will get the cash for these sales as well :-)

I did have well and truly enough for money on the Australian sales but the more the merrier!

And more often as well....

I am still not 100% clear what the reduced threshold is but hey anything is better than nothing!

Well done Apple!

This is not just for iOS app developers, but also for indie record labels who have a direct music/video-selling account with Apple (not via Tunecore, CDBaby, Orchard, etc.). The single payment and lower threshold are very nice, especially for certain countries which always seemed to have trouble with our local bank's routing details. Region reports all arrived together this month, as well. The payment display even shows exchange rates used in conversion and any regional taxes withheld.

Overall, a big thumbs up for this refresh. Never had a serious complaint before, but now it does feel more transparent and simpler to manage.

So about iTunes Producer..

IMHO, it should be cumulative of sales on all region, since individual apple companies per region is still Apple, Inc in USA. Hence, it should be internal arrangement for the company, set a threshold of $150 or less and pay to developers each month. Devs may not be doing well in some parts of the world but at least it will guarantee even how small their earnings there, they will receive their payment each month. Imagine $5 monthly sales in Japan and how long will you receive it if you wait for $150? or will never get it in the old format. Kudos to Apple for being dev friendly!

My membership ended with about $50 earned. Unfortunately (at the time) the special payout number was $150, in one specific region. Now that my membership has ended (Not renewing), is there any way to retrieve that $50, or is it Apple's now? Should be paid out...

Thank god! As more of an "experimenter" with the app store (I'm just a student) I don't really have a way to advertise (I did contact you for a review, TUAW, but you never replied) and I've only been getting like 2-3 sales a day. It's nice to not have to get to $150 in a specific country, as I'm only half way there in total at this point. This is great news :)

It is still $150, but instead of it being $150 in each of the countries you sell your app in, It is a cumulative $150 from all countries. Make sense?

This isn't 100% accurate. Apple has decreased the payment threshold (it's not clear what the new threshold is, but my old threshold was $150), but has not changed the payment frequency, which is still monthly. What they meant was that decreasing the payment threshold would have the effect of more frequent payments, since instead of being paid every 2 or 3 (or more) months, a lower threshold would mean you would hit your threshold sooner, resulting in more frequent payments (but not more frequently than one month intervals). Hope this helps.

This change is noted on the plus-side, however and despite the recent UI changes, iTunes Connect still remains an ugly, unreliable, convoluted, slow and very user/developer-unfriendly service.
Come on, Apple - you could do so much better!

I don't know if it's the same across the board, but I have something on the iBookstore and the threshold was reduced from $250 to $150, which I certainly appreciate.