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I'm not sure that's right. Even if Kindle App has no purchasing option but accesses content bought on Amazon.com, it should still allow Apple's in-app purchase.
by ruchi 16y ago
I'm not sure that's right. Even if Kindle App has no purchasing option but accesses content bought on Amazon.com, it should still allow Apple's in-app purchase. Which essentially means, Kindle app is useless. See the excerpt below.
>> If an app lets users access content that they purchased via Amazon's website, for example, then that same app must also let users buy the same book via Apple's own in-app purchase system. If the app developer doesn't want to use Apple's in-app purchases to sell content, then the app can't access content purchased elsewhere either.
- zmmmmm 16y agoIn the extreme this would seem to impact just about any app accesses a paid service and loads content from it at run time. Eg. I know a number of apps that host the browser to avoid having to go through the Apple review process for content updates (or even for minor UI updates). If it can be interpreted as "content" and there is money involved at any point in accessing it then you could fall foul of this. I guess Apple will play the usual game of letting 99% of people get away with this and just use it strategically for anti-competitive purposes against particular companies.
- JunkDNA 16y agoThat is Ars' interpretation of Apple's position. The actual quote from Apple was (emphasis is mine): "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."
- tesseract 16y agoDoesn't any app that allows you to query an arbitrary URL or web search technically provide customers the ability to purchase books through e.g. Amazon? This way lies madness.