Postmortem: iTunes Affiliate for apps

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The iTunes Affiliate Program for apps paid registered Affiliates a percentage of app sales that resulted from links to the Apple App Store from the Affiliate's web site. The iTunes Affiliate Program still exists for music, books, movies, and TV shows, but Apple ended the program for apps on October 1 2018. Yesterday, six months later, I finally got paid the remaining balance owed to me as an iTunes Affiliate. Getting paid was an ordeal that took many emails from me to the iTunes Affiliate Program. I know that some developers still haven't gotten paid fully, so I hope this blog post helps them to recover their money.
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