Apple changes App Store rules to allow external purchases

The language has been updated in sections 3.1.1, 3.2.1 (A), 3.1.3 and 3.1.3 (A) of the applications of the application store, all focusing on acceptable purchase methods. The rules that prevent applications from including “buttons, external links, or other calls to the procedures that go to customers to purchase mechanisms other than purchasing within the application include” now an exemption for the applications hosted by the American store interface.
On Wednesday, Judge iPhone Gonzalez Rogers categorically spent that Apple could not restrict app developers from including links or buttons for external purchases, or interfering in the selection of application users to go to third -party sites, or to impose “any commission or any fees on purchases that consumers make outside the application.” Apple said it would consider the court order during that The decision appeals.
Apple said in an email sent to the developers. 9to5mac. “These changes affect the applications distributed on the US store interface in the application store.”