Language has been up to date in sections 3.1.1, 3.2.1(a), 3.1.3, and three.1.3(a) of the App Retailer Pointers, which all concentrate on acceptable buy strategies. Guidelines that ban apps from together with “buttons, exterior hyperlinks, or different calls to motion that direct prospects to buying mechanisms apart from in-app buy” now embody an exemption for apps hosted by the US storefront.
On Wednesday, decide Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers emphatically dominated that Apple can not prohibit app builders from together with hyperlinks or buttons for exterior purchases, intervene with app customers’ option to go to third-party websites, or impose “any fee or any charge on purchases that buyers make outdoors an app.” Apple mentioned it can adjust to the courtroom order whereas it appeals the decision.
“The App Assessment Pointers have been up to date for compliance with a United States courtroom resolution concerning buttons, exterior hyperlinks, and different calls to motion in apps,” Apple mentioned in an e mail despatched to builders, seen by 9to5Mac. “These modifications have an effect on apps distributed on the USA storefront of the App Retailer.”