Apple outlawing content sold outside of their service

http://www.pcworld.com/article/218363/apple_rejects_sony_reader_app_says_report.html

"Apple reportedly told Sony, among other app developers, that Apple would
no longer allow downloadable content to be sold within an iOS app
unless it used Apple's in-app payment system. Apple also reportedly
said the developers could no longer sell content outside an app and then
allow users to download it to an iOS device later."

Wondering how this impacts the logos app? I'm almost ready to buy an iPad and having access on my iPhone and future iPad was a big reason for me to upgrade to logos 4.

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Philana Crouch

It shouldn't impact it at all. You don't buy resources within the app. You purchase it online and it syncs the license with your desktop, iPad. Your ability to access resources within the app is based upon your Logos ID and password.

Mark Carey

Actually they are also blocking access to content sold outside of the device as well, see the second sentence of the quote. I just noticed there is another thread on this already:

http://community.logos.com/forums/t/29373.aspx

Tony Thomas

This could really be bad!!!!!!!!!

Garrett Ho

These strongly worded titles are misleading. Read up on it, think about it, and see that there is no reason to overreact.

From techcrunch, here is the apple spokesperson's explanation:

“We have not changed our developer terms or guidelines. 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.”

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/01/apple-nothing-has-changed-except-for-this-one-thing/

So if Apple does ever enforce the rule against Logos, all that would be required to do would be to add an in-app purchase option *in addition* to the web/email/phone purchase option. They could even make it much more expensive to purchase in-app to offset the cut that Apple takes, and drive everyone to use the current web/email/phone.

Take a deep breath. The sky is not falling.