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Apple Eases Rules For Subscription Apps

Posted by Soulskill on from the reading-the-writing-on-the-wall dept.

pjfontillas writes "Apple has quietly reversed their decision that required publishers who sell content and subscriptions in their iPhone and iPad apps to go through iTunes, with Apple taking a 30% cut. It's not so quiet in the workplace, however, as this news has a pretty big influence on developer workloads. Here at The New York Times our developers breathed a sigh of relief once we realized we don't have try and work around that requirement like The Financial Times did. Apple seems to have been doing much better with their community (consumers and developers alike) recently." Reader imamac notes that Apple has also filed a motion to intervene in the Lodsys patent suit against several iOS app developers that we've been following.

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  1. I am not usually a gramer Nazi, but... by superwiz · · Score: 3, Funny

    How exactly does a sentence which starts with "here at The New York Times" ends up having two grammatical mistakes in it?

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    1. Re:I am not usually a gramer Nazi, but... by Jason+Levine · · Score: 4, Funny

      I can't decide if a grammar Nazi making a spelling mistake on the word "grammar" (as "gramer") is ironic or requires the arrival of spelling Nazis.

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  2. Re:Break up Apple by Phleg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Right. Because the one thing we all can agree on about Apple is that it's an unorganized mess without a strong controlling central authority.

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