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"We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is also available to customers from
by akmiller 16y ago
"We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is also available to customers from within the app with in-app purchase."
That is exactly the way the Kindle app on the iPhone works. When you click "Get Books" within the app you are redirected to Amazon's website on Mobile Safari where you can purchase the book then return to your app.
With that in mind I don't see how what you are suggesting is any different than what Ars is saying.
- YooLi 16y agoThe kindle app wasn't denied, the Sony app was no one knows exactly how it offered the purchase of ebooks. It could have let the user search for books from within the app and only redirected to the web store for checkout. In that case it definitely "offers the ability to purchase books outside the app" as Apple states.