> When using a third-party payment system within your app, your app must include an in-app modal sheet explaining that purchases are made through a source other than Apple. It must be displayed prior to: Any payment flow where the user would make a purchase; Any flow to enter payment information, even if it is not for a specific purchase. > Body: All purchases in the <App Name> app will be managed by the developer “<Developer Name>.” Your stored App Store payment method and related features, such as subscription management and refund requests, will not be available. Only purchases through the App Store are secured by Apple.
> Consistent with the ACM’s order, dating apps that are granted an entitlement to link out or use a third-party in-app payment provider will pay Apple a commission on transactions. Apple will charge a 27% commission on the price paid by the user, net of value-added taxes. This is a reduced rate that excludes value related to payment processing and related activities.
Apple expects each company to open their books in perpetuity. Simply evil.
> Absolutely vile. This says everything about @tim_cook’s Apple and what it thinks of developers. I hope the company gets exactly what it deserves. Everybody on their executive team should be ashamed, and some of them should not be here when it’s all over. We all see you
> We’ve been told that if Apple ever asked its employees to betray their principles, they’d leave. In a similar vein, everybody, top to bottom, involved in planning, editing, implementation of everything in this document should leave Apple. You betrayed us
https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/14895589519056691...
And I say this as someone that has known/worked with people that were/are currently at Apple - so I know they have smart people working there, that must be thinking along similar veins I'm sure.
[1] My own personal opinion about Apple's management; doesn't mean I hold current non-management employees at Apple to those standards.
