> This app does not support the App Store’s private and secure payment system. It uses external purchases
It's poorly worded for maximum FUD.
It's poorly worded for maximum FUD.
> In Slack communications dated November 16, 2021, the Apple employees crafting the warning screen for Project Michigan discussed how best to frame its language. Mr. Onak suggested the warning screen should include the language: “By continuing on the web, you will leave the app and be taken to an external website” because “‘external website’ sounds scary, so execs will love it.” [...] One employee further wrote, “to make your version even worse you could add the developer name rather than the app name.” To that, another responded “ooh - keep going.”
from https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36... (page 36)
these people should be jailed for contempt
https://daringfireball.net/2025/05/that_eu_app_store_warning...
And fwiw we have hard evidence of Apple acting in bad faith. Gruber keeps giving Apple PR the benefit of the doubt but they absolutely do not deserve it.