Big changes are coming at the top of Apple’s App Store, starting with the departure of longtime head Matt Fischer.

Bloomberg first announced the news this evening and it was later confirmed by Fischer himself in a LinkedIn post.

Fischer said on LinkedIn that he had “made the decision to step away from Apple” and that he had been thinking about leaving “for some time.”

“We are also reorganizing the team to better address new challenges and opportunities,” the post continued. Fischer said that Carson Oliver and Ann Thai would lead the redesigned App Store organization in his absence.

This seems to confirm a detail in the Bloomberg report that the App Store division will be split in two to manage its own store and the new third-party stores separately. Fischer also said he will stay until mid-October to lead the transition.

The outgoing manager also paid tribute to current and former colleagues Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, Eddy Cue and Phil Schiller and thanked his team “for their commitment to our customers, our developers and to each other.”

He added: “I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve built together – a platform with over 1 billion customers worldwide, with developers generating over $1 trillion in total revenue and sales in the App Store ecosystem in 2022 alone.”

It’s been a tough time for the App Store team after long legal battles with Epic over its alleged monopoly position, governments forcing Apple to open its store to more competition, and numerous dramas surrounding the new App Store terms, which have been compared to Unity’s unpopular runtime fee policy.