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I am not really suprised by this, buying games and then play them outside of the appstore is not exactly in the spirit of the apples guidelines.

This is clearly different from a remote desktop app.

I'm 100% sure this would be allowed back in if they built it without the ability to make purchases...

Not saying I agree with it but a Company such as Valve should know this is going to happen.

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Apparently, Valve told Reuters it had disabled the in-app purchase options, and still got canned.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-apple-steam/apple-blocks-s...

But GP was 100% sure!

Haha! 50% of the time I’m right 100% of the time!

If they are blocking the app and there is absolutely no way for people to purchase and play games then I think apple are in the wrong.

The thing is, Apple does allow this sort of thing. Look at apps like Google Play Movies. You can't buy or rent from within the app, so google doesn't get their cut - you can only buy and rent from google play movies on the website, thus bypassing Apple entirely.

You can then play that content within the iOS app. All in direct competition with iTunes.

That’s what I’m saying, it would be like the audible store - no way to buy books but you can listen to them....

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