{"id":42500,"date":"2024-03-14T15:13:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T19:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42500"},"modified":"2025-05-07T10:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:49:11","slug":"dma-compliance-custom-external-link-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/14\/dma-compliance-custom-external-link-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"DMA Compliance: Custom External Link Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=8c1m8hqt\">Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=8c1m8hqt\">\n<p>Developers who&rsquo;ve agreed to the Alternative Terms Addendum for Apps in the EU have new options for their apps in the EU:<\/p>\n<ul><li>Alternative app marketplaces. Marketplaces can choose to offer a catalog of apps solely from the developer of the marketplace.<\/li>\n<li>Linking out to purchase. When directing users to complete a transaction for digital goods or services on an external webpage, developers can choose how to design promotions, discounts, and other deals. The Apple-provided design templates, which are optimized for key purchase and promotional use cases, are now optional.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2024\/03\/apple_adjusts_dma_plan\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2024\/03\/apple_adjusts_dma_plan\">\n<p>The second is a bigger concession&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;effectively, the elimination of mandatory Apple-designed scare sheets for link-outs to the web. It sounds like the second truly eliminates anti-steering provisions for developers who opt into the new EU rules.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>That link-out screens may now contain promotional and pricing information, and don&rsquo;t need to follow Apple&rsquo;s templates&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;that&rsquo;s a mere policy change too, but one I suspect Apple <em>does<\/em> begrudge. And it&rsquo;s obviously something developers would want. Do you want a very plain-looking, totally unbranded screen, that emphasizes more than anything that you&rsquo;re leaving the safe confines of the Apple ecosystem? Or would you like to design your own screen, in your own style, with your own emphasis? This, to me, reeks of a change at the behest of the EC.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/18\/storekit-purchase-link-entitlement-for-united-states\/\">US developers<\/a> will still have to use Apple&rsquo;s scare sheets.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/08\/apple-tweaks-new-eu-app-store-business-terms\/\">Apple Tweaks New EU App Store Business Terms<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/25\/dma-compliance-alternative-app-stores-but-no-sideloading\/\">DMA Compliance: Alternative App Stores But No Sideloading<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/18\/storekit-purchase-link-entitlement-for-united-states\/\">StoreKit Purchase Link Entitlement for United States<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple: Developers who&rsquo;ve agreed to the Alternative Terms Addendum for Apps in the EU have new options for their apps in the EU: Alternative app marketplaces. Marketplaces can choose to offer a catalog of apps solely from the developer of the marketplace. Linking out to purchase. 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