Fortnite Maker Epic Games and Spotify are testing the new Apple App Store policies by submitting applications for review that will never be allowed. On Friday, both companies submitted new versions of their respective applications to the revision of the Apple application.
For the epic games, it would mean Fortnite’s return to the App Store. Apple removed the game in 2020 and ended the EPIC account after the company was challenged, adding support for immediate payments to Fortnite, before filing the lawsuit against Apple.
Spotify, meanwhile, hopes to allow its users To buy individual Audiobooks directly and allow Premium subscribers to buy hours by “filling” for Audiobook listening. (These hours can be purchased when subscribers spend the 15 free hours they receive each month.)
The latest streamer update comes to Apple’s approval heels this week of the Amazon Kindle app, which first added a book purchase button. It also follows the approval of Spotify last week, which allows users to access pricing information on subscription plans within the streaming application, among others.
Over time, more applications will probably participate in Epic Games and Spotify to benefit from new application policies.
For technology companies such as Epic and Spotify, the policy of the apps, the judge required in the lawsuit is to reinforce their minimum lines, but for smaller developers, could affect their ability to exist at all, as it allows new business models to thrive.
Updated application policies were released last week after Apple lost a major legal battle in the antitrust law filed by Epic Games when a federal judge ruled that Apple had not followed the court orders around the in -application markets. Although Apple has largely won this lawsuit, the judge called on the technological giant to be more competitive when it comes to payment processing.
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Instead of allowing developers to connect to their site to offer consumers another way to pay for things such as virtual goods or subscriptions, Apple required developers to apply for this permit. If administered, developers also had to shape how the links appeared in their applications with Apple preferences, which included the use of “terrorists” to warn consumers of the dangers of markets outside the Apple walls.
Most importantly, Apple continued to charge a strong supply of web sales of 27%, from 30% before the changes.
None of them had in mind the judge, so it forced Apple to eliminate anti -tagging obstacles and allow developers to connect to web market options without additional wreaths to pass without commissions.
