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This seems to be incorrect. Apple is not moving to tighten control; the restriction has been there for a while. I believe Apple banned non-Apple in-app purchas
by danielparks 16y ago
This seems to be incorrect.
Apple is not moving to tighten control; the restriction has been there for a while. I believe Apple banned non-Apple in-app purchases when they launched their in-app purchase system (if not before then).
Edit: The article does say Apple "has told some applications developers … that they can no longer … let customers have access to purchases they have made outside the App Store."
However, that doesn't seem to be sourced, and when the point is reiterated in the fourth paragraph, only the existing restriction is mentioned: "Apple told Sony that from now on, all in-app purchases would have to go through Apple, said Steve Haber, president of Sony’s digital reading division."
- abbott 16y agoUpon review of the iTunes Connect EULA in fall 2010, 3rd party in-app purchasing is possible as long as a pre-existing service which requires payments exists prior to the release of an app. For example, Evernote does/did qualify, because its service exists outside of the iOS app. Zoosk app may have this implemented — http://d.pr/oc2F http://d.pr/oc2F
- abbott 16y agoI forgot to mention, this term includes purchase redirects to mobile Safari. The Kindle app accomplishes this but it is fairly disjointed. Recurly mobile payments (http://recurly.com http://recurly.com) has a solution that is seamless and redirects back to the app upon checkout completion.
- smackfu 16y agoNYTimes does have journalism standards. It's not a blog.