There is a bit of a background to this that I don't see mentioned in any of the comments. Since last summer's WWDC, Apple's policy regarding "templated" or whi

There is a bit of a background to this that I don't see mentioned in any of the comments. Since last summer's WWDC, Apple's policy regarding "templated" or white-labeled apps has bounced around quite a bit. At one point they suggested that cities (for example) would be required to develop their own "custom" app rather than purchase an appropriate white-labled app from a vendor. They imagined that the functionality could be provided via an SDK that the city would use to build their own custom app. Pretty much a non-starter for all but a very few large cities with a significant IT department. In any case, they have landed on a policy that requires the apps to be published by the municipalities directly rather than via the vendor. This isn't entirely unreasonable as it provides a strong signal to users that the app is "official" and lets the city promote their own brand rather than the vendor's brand. So apparently as a concession to the administrative overhead that this change introduces for thousands of apps and organizations, they have introduced this fee waiver. All in all, I think they ended up in a reasonable place but the last six months have been pretty frustrating as Apple figured this all out. https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/21/apple-goes-after-clones-and-spam-on-the-app-store/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/20/apple-revises-its-controversial-guidelines-on-template-based-apps/