{"id":34781,"date":"2022-01-24T16:31:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T21:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34781"},"modified":"2023-12-06T14:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T19:22:53","slug":"netherlands-rejects-storekit-external-purchase-entitlement-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/24\/netherlands-rejects-storekit-external-purchase-entitlement-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands Rejects StoreKit External Purchase Entitlement Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/01\/24\/dutch-third-party-iap-plan-insufficient\/\">Sami Fathi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/01\/24\/dutch-third-party-iap-plan-insufficient\/\">\n<p>The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has ruled that Apple&rsquo;s plan to allow App Store dating apps to use third-party payment methods for in-app purchases does not sufficiently meet the requirements of a previous ruling. As a result, the ACM has hit Apple with an initial 5 million euro fine as a consequence, and fines will continue to be assessed at 5 million euros per week up to a maximum of 50 million euros until Apple complies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acm.nl\/en\/publications\/apple-fails-satisfy-requirements-set-acm\">ACM<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.acm.nl\/en\/publications\/apple-fails-satisfy-requirements-set-acm\">\n<p>Apple has failed to satisfy the requirements on several points. The most important one is that Apple has failed to adjust its conditions, as a result of which dating-app providers are still unable to use other payment systems. At the moment, dating-app providers can merely express their &lsquo;interest&rsquo;. In addition, Apple has raised several barriers for dating-app providers to the use of third-party payment systems. That, too, is at odds with ACM&rsquo;s requirements. For example, Apple seemingly forces app providers to make a choice: either refer to payment systems outside of the app or to an alternative payment system. That is not allowed. Providers must be able to choose both options.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tolmasky\/status\/1485663195461210118\">Francisco Tolmasky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tolmasky\/status\/1485663195461210118\">\n<p>It must be really frustrating to roll out an entire plan only to be completely at the whim of a reviewer &mdash; err, regulator &mdash; to find out whether it sufficiently meets a set of vague criteria.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2022\/01\/24\/netherlands-acm-fines\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2022\/01\/24\/netherlands-acm-fines\">\n<p>Apple could just write them a check for &euro;50 million now, from the company&rsquo;s spare-change-under-the-sofa account. Or they could just pull dating apps from the App Store in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/17\/storekit-external-purchase-entitlement-for-netherlands\/\">StoreKit External Purchase Entitlement for Netherlands<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/28\/dutch-anti-steering-ruling-for-dating-apps\/\">Dutch Anti-Steering Ruling for Dating Apps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/02\/relaxing-anti-steering-rules-for-reader-apps\/\">Relaxing Anti-Steering Rules for Reader Apps<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"netherlands-rejects-storekit-external-purchase-entitlement-plan-update-2022-01-25\">Update (2022-01-25): <a href=\"https:\/\/world.hey.com\/dhh\/just-the-cost-of-doing-business-crimes-c9a0316e\">David Heinemeier Hansson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/world.hey.com\/dhh\/just-the-cost-of-doing-business-crimes-c9a0316e\">\n<p>This is the problem with fines. They put a price on criminal behavior, and if the gains from committing those crimes exceed the cost of the fines, there&rsquo;s a base hyper-rational calculus that says the company should continue to break the law.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/take.surf\/2022\/01\/24\/blue-skies-and-sour-apples\">Jesper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/take.surf\/2022\/01\/24\/blue-skies-and-sour-apples\">\n<p>What you can&rsquo;t do is argue these things and then turn around and say that it&rsquo;s all fine <em>when Apple is doing it to developers<\/em>. Time after time, Apple has either completely missed or blatantly ignored what makes a sensible application for developers and users, focusing on what draws in more money or tightens the regulatory noose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a2G7ebccCtw\">A recent installment of the ongoing Floatplane App Review saga<\/a> is instructive. Floatplane COO Luke Lafreniere has ongoing issues with getting a media network app already on the App Store through review, and time after time struggles despite carbon copying solutions adopted by big and successful apps on the App Store, to the point of <em>copying UI wording verbatim<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sami Fathi: The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has ruled that Apple&rsquo;s plan to allow App Store dating apps to use third-party payment methods for in-app purchases does not sufficiently meet the requirements of a previous ruling. As a result, the ACM has hit Apple with an initial 5 million euro fine as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-01-24T21:31:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"9bba84ff-5073-40b2-93e4-5bde210c6e3a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-12-06T19:22:56Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Am7qE_1BzQLKT5FveIQxuOg","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":[2],"tags":[2085,91,130,38,101,2160,2518,522,31,2078,209,2126],"class_list":["post-34781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-appstore","tag-rejection","tag-apple","tag-business","tag-dating-apps","tag-entitlements","tag-inapppurchase","tag-ios","tag-ios-15","tag-legal","tag-netherlands"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34781","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=34781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34800,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34781\/revisions\/34800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}