{"id":23238,"date":"2018-10-29T16:30:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23238"},"modified":"2018-10-29T16:30:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:30:30","slug":"app-stores-no-longer-listing-all-in-app-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/29\/app-stores-no-longer-listing-all-in-app-purchases\/","title":{"rendered":"App Stores No Longer Listing All In-App Purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tekrevue.com\/ios-app-store-no-in-app-purchases\/\">Jim Tanous<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/link\/apple-app-store-no-longer-listing-all-in-app-purchases\/\">Bryan Chaffin<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.tekrevue.com\/ios-app-store-no-in-app-purchases\/\"><p>A concerning change was quietly pushed to the iOS App Store recently. Users this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/apple\/comments\/9rklpf\/appstore_doesnt_show_inapp_purchases_list_anymore\/\">noticed<\/a> that Apple is no longer listing all in-app purchases and their prices for apps and games that offer them.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The problem with this new policy is that the nature and prices of in-app purchases vary wildly depending on the developer and type of app or game. Users could previously check out the description and prices of the in-app purchases to determine if they were reasonable before downloading or buying an app. Now, it seems, users must download and launch the app to see the same information.<\/p>\n<p>This results in not only an inconvenience for the user, but it also inflates download statistics for app developers and potentially exposes user information as well. <\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Tanous (via Bryan Chaffin): A concerning change was quietly pushed to the iOS App Store recently. Users this week noticed that Apple is no longer listing all in-app purchases and their prices for apps and games that offer them.[&#8230;] The problem with this new policy is that the nature and prices of in-app purchases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-10-29T20:30:32Z","apple_news_api_id":"db6353d2-ac54-4f11-967f-d4ddb1600fda","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-10-29T20:30:33Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A22NT0qxUTxGWf9TdsWAP2g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[91,522,31,1610,30,39,1609],"class_list":["post-23238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-appstore","tag-inapppurchase","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-10-14"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23239,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23238\/revisions\/23239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}