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Apple isn't preventing an Amazon app from existing! Amazon is just not willing to create one under the current terms-and-conditions. The terms are the same as
by cjensen 10y ago
Apple isn't preventing an Amazon app from existing! Amazon is just not willing to create one under the current terms-and-conditions.
The terms are the same as iOS: if your app allows in-app purchase of digital goods, then you have to use Apple's payments system and Apple gets their 30% cut.
On iOS, Amazon Video works fine, Amazon works around the 30% by not allowing signups within the app, and by not providing a link to the Amazon website for signing up.
Amazon is using the AppleTV as a test case for fighting against this policy. They can afford to do that because so few people have AppleTVs compared to iOS devices.
- r00fus 10y agoI refuse to use Amazon video for this specific reason. Their "prime instant" is really just a teaser; it is very difficult to search for stuff that you don't have to pay for. It's designed to get you to buy/rent from the Amazon digital store, and hardly much else. My children will simply not watch those shows. Zaboomafoo will be a big loss, but not much else was interesting to them.