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If lawmakers are already going to give you 200% of what you originally asked for why on earth would you settle for half?
This is really big news. Waiting to see some more details. Apparently nothing changes if you decide to take in-app payments but you will be able to take payments outside App Store and avoid the 30% cut Apple takes.
Not exactly. Developers were free to take outside payments for apps. Developers were forbidden from linking or talking about this from within the app. On their on website was OK. This change lets developers tell their customer about outside payments from within the app. From what I gather, apps are still required to accept Apple Pay if they offer any type of in-app purchase. And apps that do not work without an outsi…
This is really big news. Waiting to see some more details. Apparently nothing changes if you decide to take in-app payments but you will be able to take payments outside App Store and avoid the 30% cut Apple takes.
Not exactly. Developers were free to take outside payments for apps. Developers were forbidden from linking or talking about this from within the app. On their on website was OK. This change lets developers tell their customer about outside payments from within the app. From what I gather, apps are still required to accept Apple Pay if they offer any type of in-app purchase. And apps that do not work without an outsi…
Apps such as Netflix & Spotify?
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Sounds like the slowest, most bloated way possible to design a calculator that runs on a phone.
Agreed. It seems like a great way to turn your web browser into an abstraction of an operating system.
later firefoxOS did exactly that. and it worked well. its only weak part was the lack of apps in the market.
Linking this here from the other thread, because the above comment cites the actual court documents, which clear up a lot of confusion I'm seeing on this thread. Apple's concession only applies to communications outside of the app using contact information obtained outside of the app. (Which, yes, was somehow disallowed before.)
If your user signed up through the app? Tough luck.
This "concession" only removes a rule that Apple know it never could have defended in court.
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Agreed. It seems like a great way to turn your web browser into an abstraction of an operating system.
but this is what apple originally intended, just phones weren't powerful enough at the time. later firefoxOS did exactly that. and it worked well. its only weak part was the lack of apps in the market.
I still miss my Palm Pre - shame HP killed Palm.
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Not exactly. Developers were free to take outside payments for apps. Developers were forbidden from linking or talking about this from within the app. On their on website was OK. This change lets developers tell their customer about outside payments from within the app. From what I gather, apps are still required to accept Apple Pay if they offer any type of in-app purchase. And apps that do not work without an outsi…
> And apps that do not work without an outside-app purchase are still rejected as well. Apps such as Netflix & Spotify?