{"id":28900,"date":"2020-08-22T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=cc0f0efa29653cb5aa957ecce25df714"},"modified":"2020-08-23T22:49:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T02:49:36","slug":"apple-apologizes-to-wordpress-wont-force-the-free-app-to-add-purchases-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=28900","title":{"rendered":"Apple apologizes to WordPress, won\u2019t force the free app to add purchases after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/8\/22\/21397424\/apple-wordpress-apology-iap-free-ios-app\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Hey, Apple didn't double down for once. \r\nThat's nice.<\/div><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/6wQnREnrrnzhxLjcRNzmBq89ndU=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/67280425\/acastro_180130_1777_0005_v2.0.jpg\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><small>Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge<\/small>\n\n  <p>On Friday, the internet erupted in a small way to learn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/8\/21\/21396316\/apple-wordpress-in-app-purchase-tax-update-store\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">that Apple had successfully forced WordPress to monetize its <em>free<\/em> app<\/a> &mdash; forcing it to sell premium plans and custom domain names seemingly just so that Apple could get its traditional 30 percent cut.<\/p>\n<p>But one afternoon and evening of surprise and outrage later, Apple is backing off. The company is issuing a rare on-the-record apology, and it says that WordPress will no longer have to add in-app purchases now that all is said and done.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s Apple&rsquo;s full statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We believe the issue with the WordPress app has been resolved. Since the developer removed the display of their service payment options from the app, it is now a free stand-alone app and does not have to offer in-app...<\/p><\/blockquote>\n  <p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/8\/22\/21397424\/apple-wordpress-apology-iap-free-ios-app\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge<\/p>\n<p>  On Friday, the internet erupted in a small way to learn &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=28900\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}