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  • Developer convinces Apple to bend App Store rules on subscriptions

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    ID0X said:
    mcdave said:
    So this subscription renews every day? Sounds like a news disaster in the making.
    Now the AppStore sez that free for 3 days...

    This is the trial, not the DAY PASS that is the subject of the article.
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  • Developer convinces Apple to bend App Store rules on subscriptions

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    This article is misleading in that it implies that Apple made an exception, which is not the case.  The app never violated any guideline because it didn’t offer an auto renewing subscription. Our company successfully appealed a similar rejection years ago when we offered a three day trial for one of our apps. 

    Developers appeal incorrect applications of the guidelines hundreds of times a day, so this is a story about nothing. 
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  • Facebook says Apple blocked in-app message informing users of 30% App Store fee

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    What FaceBook fails to disclose is that it actually earns revenue in other ways, such as paid advertising, during these events. It also collects user data that it uses to target those ads, and relies on the visits to its properties during those events to pitch its ad services to its advertising customers.
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  • Apple applauds court for denying Epic Games' request to restore 'Fortnite'

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    georgie01 said:
    Obviously the right decision, and I hope the ‘heads up’ to Apple by the judge that their argument may not be the best one will help in their preparation for the upcoming court case. 
    Where is this “heads up”?  According to the ruling, Epic didn’t establish ANY of the requirements for a TRO, including likelihood of success on the merits. 

    Seems that Epic is the one who needs to come up with a better argument. 
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  • Judge orders Apple can't block Epic's Unreal Engine, Fortnite to remain banned

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    aderutter said:
    My understanding was that Apple was going to pull Epic’s enterprise developer account for violating terms of the enterprise account agreement. 

    If so, the problem with what the judge has done is that it leaves the question of when and how Apple can enforce it’s agreements with ALL enterprise customers. Does this mean all enterprise developers that have third party customers themselves can safely ignore the enterprise agreement and do whatever they like? I.e. enterprise accounts are for deploying applications within the enterprise organisation and are not for distributing applications to third parties. Can enterprise developers now violate this fundamental agreement without worry?

    I don’t expect Epic’s partial win to last long, Epic may have temporarily swayed the judge by conflating the two separate issues (Fortnite and Unreal) but I expect sanity to prevail eventually.

    Epic didn't "violat[e] the terms of the enterprise account agreement."  Moreover, the Epic that did violate the separate agreement for its own apps, is not the same legal entity that entered into the agreeements relating to Unreal Engine. 
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