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Originally Posted by vxf
Thanks for that link - that explains it.
Well, kind of. I mean, it explains what happened to the app. But not why Apple would enforce this arbitrarily on SONY.
How is this different than my reading the Economist (to which I subscribe outside of the apple store) on its dedicated app? Or watching Netflix or HBO (separate subscriptions). Or the magazine on Zinio? Or the Kindle app, as the article itself mentions?
Makes very little sense. Not the first time, with Apple, but surely there has to be some other criterion - such as simply not wanting to do business with another tech gadget manufacturer.
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Because the quoted article does a very poor job of explaining why the Sony app was rejected. It allowed purchases direct from Sony in the app itself. That is not allowed, and never has been, even before the new subscription policies. You could use Apple's in-app purchase system, or redirect to Safari to buy from a website (as Amazon do), or just offer subscriptions outside the app, with no link to buy from within the app (as Netflix do, I believe).