Apple today announced it will begin to allow a subset of applications sold on its App Store to link to an external website where users can create or manage their accounts with the app developer.

Apple will now let developers of “reader apps” like Netflix, Spotify, and Kindle link out to their websites, so users will be able to make and manage accounts.

Microsoft today announced that it is bringing Workbook Links to Excel on the web. The firm says that it aims to let customers also use the web client for all their work, without having to “fall ...

After they apply for a special External Link Account Entitlement, that is. Apple has long since allowed such apps to take billing outside of Apple’s own in-app purchase system, for which the ...

The gist of it is that Apple makes developers who sell digital goods process all payments through its own in-app purchase system and payment processing, and takes a cut of up to 30 percent.

Apple adds nearly endless 20 percent fee for developers in latest EU update. Apple will let EU developers link to external payment options — but they’ll have to pay Apple a cut of off-platform ...

Apple has changed its App Store rules in the U.S. to let apps link users to their own websites so they can buy subscriptions or other digital goods. This change comes after a U.S. court ruled in ...