Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store
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Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store
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#2This 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.
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#3Everything that is done with a platform dependent app can be done with a platform independent web app. I don't know what the best way out of this is but app stores were a step back. Your phone could have one app...a web browser and maybe a few utilities like a calculator, calendar, clock. Even these could be implemented as web apps running in the browser.
Re: Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store
#4Everything that is done with a platform dependent app can be done with a platform independent web app. I don't know what the best way out of this is but app stores were a step back. Your phone could have one app...a web browser and maybe a few utilities like a calculator, calendar, clock. Even these could be implemented as web apps running in the browser.
Sounds like the slowest, most bloated way possible to design a calculator that runs on a phone.
Re: Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store
#5Everything that is done with a platform dependent app can be done with a platform independent web app. I don't know what the best way out of this is but app stores were a step back. Your phone could have one app...a web browser and maybe a few utilities like a calculator, calendar, clock. Even these could be implemented as web apps running in the browser.
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.
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#6Everything that is done with a platform dependent app can be done with a platform independent web app. I don't know what the best way out of this is but app stores were a step back. Your phone could have one app...a web browser and maybe a few utilities like a calculator, calendar, clock. Even these could be implemented as web apps running in the browser.
What about a different web browser?
Re: Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store
#7This 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 outside-app purchase are still rejected as well.
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#8They'd have to mend a lot of rules around not having links to your own website & what not as well
Re: Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store
#9This 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.
This and another news they will allow more different pricing points, up to 500 from 100.
I wonder if some PR/research team at Apple woke up one day and finally realize the outcry re scan of iPhone in iOS 15 may actually hurt the brand longterm.
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#10I guess epic games just won?