<story><title>Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/netflix-is-the-latest-company-to-try-bypassing-apples-app-store-2018-08-23</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dperfect</author><text>&amp;gt; They are being redirected to the mobile web version of the app and asked to enter payment details with Netflix directly.&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but if Apple&amp;#x27;s policies are applied consistently (I know they often aren&amp;#x27;t), this won&amp;#x27;t fly.&lt;p&gt;I have an app with a basic email&amp;#x2F;password sign-in screen (the app represents a small part of a larger web-based SaaS product). Apple has rejected my app for including &lt;i&gt;anything&lt;/i&gt; in the app that even remotely hints to the service existing outside of the App Store. This includes a &amp;quot;Sign Up&amp;quot; button linked to the web signup, a &amp;quot;Learn More&amp;quot; button that links to the website, or even a &amp;quot;Support&amp;quot; button that has navigation that can lead to a signup or pricing page. After a long chat with someone from the App Store review team, I learned that you can&amp;#x27;t link to &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; page of a site that contains other links that can indirectly lead to a signup or pricing information. It&amp;#x27;s a pretty harsh policy.&lt;p&gt;So my app was finally approved, but without any links to support documentation on my site. Congratulations, Apple - you win :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tommymachine</author><text>It will be some vague &amp;quot;you can&amp;#x27;t do this here&amp;quot; message that doesn&amp;#x27;t directly link. A la current state of affairs with Spotify &amp;#x2F; Audible &amp;#x2F; Amazon&lt;p&gt;As a suggestion regarding your situation... obviously its more work but you could always open the support pages in a webView that blocks  the purchase urls via [1].&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.apple.com&amp;#x2F;documentation&amp;#x2F;uikit&amp;#x2F;uiwebviewdelegate&amp;#x2F;1617945-webview&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.apple.com&amp;#x2F;documentation&amp;#x2F;uikit&amp;#x2F;uiwebviewdel...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/netflix-is-the-latest-company-to-try-bypassing-apples-app-store-2018-08-23</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dperfect</author><text>&amp;gt; They are being redirected to the mobile web version of the app and asked to enter payment details with Netflix directly.&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but if Apple&amp;#x27;s policies are applied consistently (I know they often aren&amp;#x27;t), this won&amp;#x27;t fly.&lt;p&gt;I have an app with a basic email&amp;#x2F;password sign-in screen (the app represents a small part of a larger web-based SaaS product). Apple has rejected my app for including &lt;i&gt;anything&lt;/i&gt; in the app that even remotely hints to the service existing outside of the App Store. This includes a &amp;quot;Sign Up&amp;quot; button linked to the web signup, a &amp;quot;Learn More&amp;quot; button that links to the website, or even a &amp;quot;Support&amp;quot; button that has navigation that can lead to a signup or pricing page. After a long chat with someone from the App Store review team, I learned that you can&amp;#x27;t link to &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; page of a site that contains other links that can indirectly lead to a signup or pricing information. It&amp;#x27;s a pretty harsh policy.&lt;p&gt;So my app was finally approved, but without any links to support documentation on my site. Congratulations, Apple - you win :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andyfleming</author><text>IF applied consistently. This is Netflix though. I&amp;#x27;ll be interested to see how this plays out.</text></comment>