Other examples (using ie for Ireland):
https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/alprelax/id6479374216
https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/contribee/id6466801641
https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/martinus-e-knihy-a-audioknihy/...
Screenshot of the warning: https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FGqxWbH8WgAAPx8L.jpg
Wonder if they’ll put that warning on bank apps? What’s the difference after all?
It’s looking like Tim Cook should wrap up and let someone like Schiller take over
Hopefully the EU shames Apple and threatens with more fines for this “malicious compliance”.
Warning: potentially inflammatory content ahead.
AFAIK, Eddy Cue is the one responsible for all this. He’s known to be a shrewd negotiator (with Hollywood studios and such), but the App Store has been a disaster for developers in many ways (as well as users, in some ways) for a very long time. Tim Cook has trusted lieutenants who shouldn’t be, and gotten rid of those who could’ve done a little better (Scott Forstall, I believe, was one of those).
Does Apple display this message when an app includes both Apple and non-Apple payments? If that were the case, it would make sense to support Apple payments at 10x the price.
So, the Amazon app doesn't get this warning, even though it also only uses "external purchases", because somehow according to Apple it's only unsafe for digital goods? Give me a break..
It would be amazing if someone like setapp signed up iOS apps to their service, so you could now have apps that did not rely on individual subscriptions, solving the subscription fatigue issue and the in app advertising issue, especially for kids apps.
Won’t stop til the US gov starts enforcing anti monopoly laws.
Best backup plan is EU laws that basically target these monopoly players directly.
Very unsurprising, but still disappointing, that Apple resorts to scare mongering for apps that don't want to pay the 30% Apple tax.
I’m done with iOS, apples endless anti user/developer bullshit has pushed me over the edge. For my next phone I’ll be moving back to Android-ish something sans google components.
The same process is happening to macOS too, but at least Linux is an easy switch there.
Bad for everyone, but not surprising at this point.
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Why is apple pulling these silly cards, do they have a personal beef or something??
They achieve precisely the opposite of what they think. People will learn to associate that warning with "oh good this app is cheaper than the competition".
People are so accustomed to dismiss "warnings" ,especially when there are going to be so many of them