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by ihuman 2861 days ago
Release a free app that requires a user to log in. In order to access the content in the app, the user has to log into a web browser with that account and pay directly via the developer's website. Amazon Kindle and Netflix kind of do this. With Kindle, you have to buy the books with a separate app instead of a website, and Netflix has the option to buy inside the app as well as outside.
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MBCook 2861 days ago
Apple has rules against circumventing their billing system. Netflix gets to do it because the service works if you don’t have any iOS devices.

I’m not sure someone like Fortnight could get away with bypassing it. If they did it would only be due to being a special case due to pull. No normal app could get away with it, you’d get pulled fast.

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ihuman 2861 days ago
IIRC you're just not allowed to programmatically open a web browser; you have to tell the user to do it themselves.
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