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Apple bars in-app purchases outside of iOS App store

Apple bars in-app purchases outside of iOS App store

Apple bars in-app purchases outside of iOS App store, reports The New York Times

Well, The New York Times has reported that Apple will now not allow developers to go for in-App purchases outside iOS App Store.

Apple’s In App purchase lets developers to embed a store directly in the iOS app, developed by them. Few of the examples of in-app purchases are recurring services, game level/maps, subscriptions with them all being available for sale within an iOS app.

And with Apple with it reported to have banned all in-app purchases outside iOS, earlier times of App store developers with them enjoying the purchases made through an in-app store embedded in the iOS app developed, with Apple’s iOS to have no business with that, now would not be possible. Rather, they now will all be routed through iOS, giving an option to Apple to put a commission levy on such purchases. In-App purchase requires iDevice to run overiOS 3.0 or later running iDevice [iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch].

Apple’s this tightening of restrictions over its iOS App store has led Sony Reader’s iPhone app getting rejected. Apple has conveyed the change in restrictions of its iOS App Store for developers, to Sony.

Apple which now not letting developers to go for in- app purchases outside iOS, could remove Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader app as well.

Further, it has also been reported that Apple has told numbers European publishers of implementing strict rules to allow paid print subscribers iPad access at no cost letting them bypass Apple and company’s existing 30% commission levy for all App store transactions.

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