Why is it when Apple does this to an app for the same reasons, it's ok?
I suspect their announcement was a copy/paste of Apple's Kindle app rejection on the app store (when it included the option to buy books).
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Amazon pulled the kindle app's ability to purchase books, because to continue to do so they would have had to pay Apple the standard 30% cut. Amazon did not want to pay that. So they chose to instead to remove the ability for customers to purchase books inside the app.
Did Apple ever reject the Kindle app? They rejected Sony's app; from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/technology/01apple.html?_r...:
“We have not changed our developer terms or guidelines,” Trudy Muller, an Apple spokeswoman, said Tuesday. “We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is also available to customers from within the app with in-app purchase.”
So not a copy/paste of that, either.