[nodamage]

Netflix and Amazon Prime Video as digital video content providers are specifically exempted from the IAP rules according to section 3.1.3(a) of the App Store review guidelines.

[Wowfunhappy]

Sure, that's the justification, but Apple wrote those rules. It's completely arbitrary in practice.

I thought John Gruber laid this out pretty well: https://daringfireball.net/2020/06/hey_app_store_rejection_f...