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by waterside81 5311 days ago
Can someone elaborate on the no pricing information within the app point? If we have an in-app purchase, we can't tell people how much it costs? That sounds opposite to what I'd expect.
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They specifically mean hard-coded references. For IAPs and the like, you should be querying the server for the localized price.

A good example is a "Share via Email" function that presents a pre-filled Email Composer with "Download this $1 app." This causes problems if you happen to change the price down the road (or if users are in a different economic zone).

I was curious about this too so had a search and found. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7109635/is-it-ok-to-show-... If you use MKStoreKit to localize the pricing then its OK. Apple dont want developers hard coding pricing info or displaying the wrong currency to the user.
True. Have changed to 'does not hardcode any price information...'