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Originally Posted by LagunaManiac
The notion that Apple has never allowed In-App purchases is absurd. Check out the way that our iFlow Reader works. You better hurry because if Apple requires us to pay a 30% surcharge on sales, we are out of business.
Let's all try to imagine what would be happening if Microsoft said that they wanted a 30% cut of all items purchased using a program running on Windows. There is no conceptual difference whatsoever. The only difference is that Apple had the foresight to provide the only way of loading apps onto your device so they could set this trap.
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In iFlow Reader, you initiate selection of a book to purchase within the app, but it launches a browser window to complete the purchase (I just double checked this). So it is not essentially any different than any of the other apps since the purchase is not completed within the app itself. The guidelines say nothing about 'just browsing' within the app itself.
Still, Apple seems to be insisting that the two (purchase in app or purchase in browser launched from app) are morally equivalent. They aren't but that is what they are saying.