He didn’t tell you to program a bespoke tool, you tool.

It’s hard to believe, I know. 😅

You’re definitely right about them prohibiting devs from pointing to a web browser to subscribe. They can’t link, can’t even use language that explains WHY you can’t subscribe in the app (if the dev decides to forego using Apples payment system entirely). I think that THIS was what Apple recently was forced by a judge to relax, after the Apple v Epic case.

I must have been conflating the policy that they ABSOLUTELY did have (but only til 2011) and the outside links issue. Hughes Hubbard

Under the February rules, if developers wanted to use content purchased outside of the app, they also had to offer the content for in-app purchase and it had to be offered at the same price or less than it was offered elsewhere, despite the fact that Apple takes a 30% cut.

Macrumors

Apple has quietly changed its guidelines on the pricing of In-App Subscriptions on the App Store. There are no longer any requirements that a subscription be the “same price or less than it is offered outside the app”.

Apple doesn’t allow this - they expect your price to be the same everywhere or they’ll remove the app from their store or decline version updates. There have historically been a few high profile exceptions privately negotiated, and I think they were forced to relax this in the last year or two, but here they are again trying to claw away money they did literally nothing to earn.

I’m definitely not blaming the photographer. Unless it’s a DSLR, then that’s on them. But it’s almost definitely not.

Wait - I’ve seen all these headlines today and wondered why we’re talking about the Olympics… But it didn’t occur to me that the US has the summer Olympics in 2 years, definitely not winter. I can’t even imagine what stupidity is being used to justify sending ICE to any other country.

There must be a “shitty HDR” sublemmy, this deserves a prize over there.

This sounds like a great opportunity for David Hogg to enter the conversation again, supporting primarying these fuckers.