Essentially now app devs/companies can have a pop-up for in-app purchases that directs a user to their own payment processors/portals where they don’t have to pay the “Apple tax” and they’ll be able to inform their users as such and even offer their payment method cheaper and/or you get more
Before this ruling, a previous ruling against Apple forbade them from forbidding third-party payment processing in the apps at all as they had since the App stores inception. So Apple followed the exact letter of the order and still “collected” the “Apple Tax” and set rules on the message the pop-up could have.
Now this ruling nixed their “work around”, and I’d say the judge is rather pissed, hence the “effective immediately”
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
on 03 May 20:47
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Personally, I don’t want multiple app stores specifically. I just want to be able to install IPA’s from Github or where ever like I can on Android.
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I’m pretty anti-Apple, so my question is just to have a better understanding of what this means.
So does this mean, we will see a bunch of free apps that direct you to purchase a subscription or license on their website to unlock the app?
Essentially now app devs/companies can have a pop-up for in-app purchases that directs a user to their own payment processors/portals where they don’t have to pay the “Apple tax” and they’ll be able to inform their users as such and even offer their payment method cheaper and/or you get more
Before this ruling, a previous ruling against Apple forbade them from forbidding third-party payment processing in the apps at all as they had since the App stores inception. So Apple followed the exact letter of the order and still “collected” the “Apple Tax” and set rules on the message the pop-up could have.
Now this ruling nixed their “work around”, and I’d say the judge is rather pissed, hence the “effective immediately”
Personally, I don’t want multiple app stores specifically. I just want to be able to install IPA’s from Github or where ever like I can on Android.