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Re:Apple has told several social-networking apps to disable ... by pdelbarba on Friday May 19, 2017 @02:17PM (#14378122)
That's my thought here as well. This seems eerily close to just demanding a cut of every transaction on their platform.
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Re:Apple has told several social-networking apps to disable ... by hkmurakami on Friday May 19, 2017 @02:19PM (#14378135)
Wonder what'll happen if they demand Amazon pay some % of sales for their physical goods.
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Re:Apple has told several social-networking apps to disable ... by hboon on Friday May 19, 2017 @02:23PM (#14378180)
In their guidelines, IAP is specifically for virtual goods and services (i.e. definitely not physical goods).
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Re:Apple has told several social-networking apps to disable ... by hkmurakami on Friday May 19, 2017 @03:06PM (#14378506)
Right, but what's stopping them from charging say 1% on every transaction whether it's financial or physical, on some future date?
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Re:Apple has told several social-networking apps to disable ... by helthanatos on Friday May 19, 2017 @02:20PM (#14378144)
That's exactly what this is and I'm confused as to why Apple thinks they can do that. A legal suit would cause them more problems, so why demand something so ridiculous?
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