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Sure, if you want to give 30% of it away to Google or Apple for no reason.

• netsharc 9y ago
  Theoretically they should not be allowed to have a monopoly of a payment provider. Imagine if $YOUR_BANK_HERE offers an in-phone API for payments. Just like you can click a button on an online shop that will load paypal.com, you should be able to press a "Pay" button in an app to load a payment provider app that you trust with your CC info. Then you can confirm this payment through that app, or set-up rules like "If it's Lyft and the charge is less than $20 and the daily total so far is less than $50, automatically allow.". But I'm guessing such an app would violate some Android or iPhone Terms and Conditions.
  • jonknee 9y ago
    This essentially exists (not the daily limit part), but it's not called an In App Purchase. https://developer.apple.com/library/content/ApplePay_Guide/ https://developer.apple.com/library/content/ApplePay_Guide/ https://developers.google.com/android-pay/ https://developers.google.com/android-pay/ IAPs are for digital goods (movies, gold coins in games, etc) and that's where you face the steep Apple/Google tax. For physical goods you can process your own payments or use the above APIs. This is why you can't buy a Kindle book other than through Mobile Safari on iOS (digital good, Apple would charge Amazon 30%).