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Re:Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair by RandallBrown on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @11:44AM (#19379786)
The Kindle iPhone app still doesn't even link you to the website so you can buy books does it? It only looks like I can add it to a "list" that I assume I can view in the browser and then purchase.
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Re:Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair by tokyodude on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @01:58PM (#19381502)
Apps are not allowed to link the website for purchasing. That's one of Apple's rules.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#in-...

> Apps and their metadata may not include buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms other than in-app purchase.

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Re:Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair by CraneWorm on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @02:01PM (#19381527)
Now I have this wild supposition that every time I see an

<add it to your wish list!>

button it is so that Apple won't fall on you like a ton of bricks for suggesting I can buy things outside their store.

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