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Re:ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Maf... by snomad on Friday October 09, 2020 @06:43PM (#24735164)
It sounds like they weren't taking any payments via phone. Purchase only happened on the web, and Apple reviewers found text that led to web.

It would be one thing if they were selling phone and skipping Apple that way. But if their are no phone payments, and only non-obvious links, it should not be required (or maybe I am misinterpreting this)

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Re:ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Maf... by programmarchy on Friday October 09, 2020 @07:04PM (#24735307)
Yep. I’m guessing the ProtonMail app opens a web view to display their terms of use, or some informational page, completely unrelated to subscriptions. However if any of those pages link to a purchase page, no matter how circuitously, it is taken as a pretext to require IAP.
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