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> This app does not support the App Store’s private and secure payment system. It uses external purchases It's poorly worded for maximum FUD.

macintux 1y ago
Apple proposed reducing the scare factor months ago. The EU told them to hold off. https://daringfireball.net/2025/05/that_eu_app_store_warning_about_external_purchases_is_not_new https://daringfireball.net/2025/05/that_eu_app_store_warning...
- fenomas 1y ago
  At the end of that link, where it describes how the EC gave conflicting instructions, demanded action without saying what needed to be done, and then gave a sudden negative judgment... I know some iOS developers who'd say that sounds eerily familiar. :D
- canuckintime 1y ago
  Apple’s malicious compliance then pretending to ask for permission. Apple was trying to get the EU to rubber stamp the scare tactics. Instead the EU said let’s see that works out for you. And fwiw we have hard evidence of Apple acting in bad faith. Gruber keeps giving Apple PR the benefit of the doubt but they absolutely do not deserve it.
blibble 1y ago
this showed up in the recent court case too: > In Slack communications dated November 16, 2021, the Apple employees crafting the warning screen for Project Michigan discussed how best to frame its language. Mr. Onak suggested the warning screen should include the language: “By continuing on the web, you will leave the app and be taken to an external website” because “‘external website’ sounds scary, so execs will love it.” [...] One employee further wrote, “to make your version even worse you could add the developer name rather than the app name.” To that, another responded “ooh - keep going.” from https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.364265/gov.uscourts.cand.364265.1508.0_2.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36... (page 36) these people should be jailed for contempt

macintux 1y ago

Apple proposed reducing the scare factor months ago. The EU told them to hold off. https://daringfireball.net/2025/05/that_eu_app_store_warning_about_external_purchases_is_not_new https://daringfireball.net/2025/05/that_eu_app_store_warning...

fenomas 1y ago
At the end of that link, where it describes how the EC gave conflicting instructions, demanded action without saying what needed to be done, and then gave a sudden negative judgment... I know some iOS developers who'd say that sounds eerily familiar. :D
canuckintime 1y ago
Apple’s malicious compliance then pretending to ask for permission. Apple was trying to get the EU to rubber stamp the scare tactics. Instead the EU said let’s see that works out for you. And fwiw we have hard evidence of Apple acting in bad faith. Gruber keeps giving Apple PR the benefit of the doubt but they absolutely do not deserve it.

blibble 1y ago

this showed up in the recent court case too: > In Slack communications dated November 16, 2021, the Apple employees crafting the warning screen for Project Michigan discussed how best to frame its language. Mr. Onak suggested the warning screen should include the language: “By continuing on the web, you will leave the app and be taken to an external website” because “‘external website’ sounds scary, so execs will love it.” [...] One employee further wrote, “to make your version even worse you could add the developer name rather than the app name.” To that, another responded “ooh - keep going.” from https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.364265/gov.uscourts.cand.364265.1508.0_2.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36... (page 36) these people should be jailed for contempt