My thoughts too. If Twitter is going to start behaving like the App Store I want no part of it.

This isn't as much behaving like the App Store as it is telling the App Store "hold my beer".

Not really; it’s the same. You can’t release products that compete with apple, ala an App Store, or games store, etc. It took a lawsuit to change that for Europe, but we still have yet to see what that looks like.

Not really. The pixel buds app is in the Apple store. So is Amazon.

Unless you're Roblox of course. What's up with that? Does Tim Cook own a bunch of Roblox stock or something?

I believe Roblox would have enough money to convince any platform hosting their app to capitulate.

LMAO.

What do you mean?

Yea but doesn’t bring Apple App Store rules to mind that’s nonsense.

I think the Apple rule they're referring to is that if you have an in-app transaction, you're not allowed to reference the fact that the transaction can be made off-app (which would avoid Apple's 30% cut). It's not quite the same, but similarly draconian in that it restricts what you're allowed to say (as opposed to what you're allowed to link to).

That’s one part of it, also if you sell say ebooks or MP3s, you can’t sell them in-app, but also you can’t even provide a link in-app to buy them using the mobile browser.

I don’t want to derail this conversation with App Store policies, but the notion of policing links isn’t great, especially for a social network.

Apple isn’t publicly claiming otherwise though.

Not only that. There are a lot of things you can't say on the App Store. Pretty much anything critical of App Store policies or mentioning alternative platforms as text in your app (rather than user generated content) is likely to get you the boot.

no because you can't also say that your free app ios is on android too