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Apple has updated its App Store policies to spell out how developers can link to outside payment platforms, as reported by 9to5Mac.
Developers will still owe Apple a cut if they use an outside payment platform. Apple will take a 27 percent cut (as opposed to the 30 percent in many cases) or 12 percent if a developer is part of the App Store Small Business Program, according to a support page about external purchase links.
Developers can’t exclusively receive payments from outside Apple’s walled garden; they’ll also have to offer Apple’s in-app purchase system in their apps.
The updates follow the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear Apple and Epic’s appeals over the Epic Games v. Apple ruling, which required Apple to discontinue its…
