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In terms of what you can offer in an app itself:

There was a very narrow ruling affecting only Dutch dating apps. So for those apps and those apps only, Apple added an exception:

If you offer an alternate payment method in-app, you must do it in a certain way: TL;DR they still will contractually owe Apple basically 27% as a “commission” Main points to their rules: 1. Must display a certain message Apple provides before accepting the payment that explains that they are totally NOT doing business with Apple if they proceed and Apple can’t help them 2. You have to provide Apple periodic reports (I think weekly or monthly?) of your revenue 3. You have to pay them their 30% regularly, minus 3% to cover your processing fee 4. They’re allowed to audit you to make sure no cheating 5. If you break their above rules they have the right to pull your app from the store

If you think the above sounds like BS and kind of like they got off easy and cynically followed the letter of the law while still doing the same monopolist rent-seeking you’re right.

Although I think sideloading of some form is coming to at least EU next year, I think? I’m sure Google will be your friend on that one.

Also, there was a recent change in response to some other ruling that any app can now have a link to a site where you can manage an account etc. even if that site might offer the ability to (gasp) pay outside Apple’s system.