Tuesday, August 6, 2013

iOS: Updated Kindle app bypasses Apple's 30 percent rule - Apple News

If you find something on the App Store, whether it is a paid app or in-app purchases, then you have to automatically pay 30 percent of the profit to Apple. This is not surprising, after all, Apple wants to make some money on the App Store. The company is relatively strict with this rule. Still, Amazon has found a way to circumvent this rule and to feign from the freshly updated Kindle app out an in-app purchase in the Apple gets nothing.

Okay. Correctly, it must be said that Apple has never made any profit on Kindle books. The old version of the app headed to the Amazon website in Safari, where the customer had to re-search for the desired book. So that one did not infringe the App Store rules, because this ban only direct download links.

With the current update of the Amazon Kindle app, however, has found a way to make the purchase of e-books with the Kindle app nearly as comfortable as an in-app purchase, without having to give 30 percent of the revenue to Apple . The new version of the Kindle app for iOS contains a “Free Sample Search” version. With this you can download a free sample reading. From this out, it is then possible to generate by means of a “Buy” button an e-mail to a previously stored in the address settings, which includes a link to buy the appropriate e-books on the Amazon page.

This method does not violate the App Store rules. since they only prohibit direct links from within the app. Whether Apple will this new method, however, can be long fallen, is another question.

(via AppleInsider)

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