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Apple excludes video and news partners from new App Store rules around external payments

Apple this week updated its App Store rules to comply with a court order after the Supreme Court declined to hear the Epic Games-initiated antitrust case

It also used an entitlement to make an exception for dating apps in the Netherlands, when ordered to allow developers to point users to other purchase options if they chose. In addition, the payment processors have to meet “certain industry standards,” Apple says, and have to provide users with processes for disputing unauthorized transactions, managing subscriptions, and requesting refunds. The developer would only save money if they could convince users to sign up on their websites without clicking an in-app link since the cost to run their own payment processing could bump the total even higher than Apple’s standard 30% commission.

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