On 7/27/2011 4:05 PM, Jim Saklad wrote:
>
>
>> See, here is what I do not understand. According to everything I have
>> read--including things from Apple and on various dev forums--Apple has
>> always restricted in-app purchases.
>>
>> According to your post, Amazon is calling something that has always
>> (apparently) been a part of the contract. so Amazon is not being
>> truthful in that they are blaming Apple by calling this a recent change.
>>
>> To be fair to Apple, Amazon apparently broke the rules and violated
>> Apple's TOS.
>
> The "recent change" is that "law enforcement" (Apple) has recently
> decided to enforce this "law" that was already "on the books" but being
> ignored by scofflaw Amazon.
>
And by scofflaw Apple, which allowed these apps to be posted to iTunes
in the first place. It's not as if the app as Apple vetted it was one
thing, but then Amazon sneaked some secret code in that magically
changed the app on my iPad to do something that Apple couldn't see when
it received and approved the app for posting at iTunes.
It's the timing of the thing -- if these apps violate the contract, they
violated the contract when Apple first approved them, so if there's any
"fault" here it's that Apple didn't know the terms of its own contract
when it approved the apps in the first place.
--
David H. Bailey
dhbailey@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
