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You misunderstand, they were selling a PHYSICAL Microsoft device in their e-commerce store that sells physical items. Nonetheless, showing a product you can buy

You misunderstand, they were selling a PHYSICAL Microsoft device in their e-commerce store that sells physical items. Nonetheless, showing a product you can buy in the app that is not Apple branded was not allowed.

JohnBooty 6y ago
Nonetheless, showing a product you can buy in the app That would be extremely bad, but that's not the scenario the original poster described. They had a Microsoft product in their App Store screenshots. There are countless e-commerce apps (Amazon, eBay etc) available for iOS that will happily let you purchase competitors' products. Also worth noting that you can get Microsoft apps in the iOS App Store and that some of these apps compete with Apple's own apps.
Dracophoenix 6y ago
So how does that work for Amazon, Rakuten, Alibaba, Walmart, Costco, Best Buy, et al. ?
- marcinzm 6y ago
  Presumably if any of them used a screenshot that showed a product competing with Apple they would not be approved.
- erklik 6y ago
  Once you are big enough, you do not follow the same rules.