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I was almost completely buying into the theme park and pizza concession analogy. But then I thought of the one exception. You're allowed to buy Amazon pizza o
by allwein 16y ago
I was almost completely buying into the theme park and pizza concession analogy. But then I thought of the one exception. You're allowed to buy Amazon pizza outside of the park and bring it in for free, but only if Amazon has agreed to set up a pizza shop inside the park as well.
And I think that's the key point of contention. I don't mind Apple taking a 30% cut of anything I sell from within my app. And I don't mind when they make an editorial decision and make me remove offensive or inappropriate functionality from my app. But compelling me to add or implement functionality in my app or be rejected, that's contentious for me.
- allwein 16y agoI'm really curious what the status would be of third-party content applications. Let's say that Amazon exposed reading functionality in a Kindle Web API but not purchasing functionality. So I implement an iOS application called kReader which can read Kindle books. I wonder where I'd fall in Apple's rule restrictions then, since I'm not offering anything for sale either in-app or out-of-app.
- raganwald 16y agoI agree with the difference you point out, however Apple does not bar free content. So if you're in the business of giving pizza away, you are free to have your customers take their pizza into the Apple theme park without setting up shop within the park. As you point out, you are required to set up a shop within the park if you also have a shop outside the park.