We’re offering extra flexibility for builders who distribute apps within the European Union (EU), together with introducing a brand new option to distribute apps instantly from a developer’s web site.
Extra flexibility
Builders who’ve agreed to the Various Phrases Addendum for Apps within the EU have new choices for his or her apps within the EU:
Various app marketplaces. Marketplaces can select to supply a catalog of apps solely from the developer of {the marketplace}.
Linking out to buy. When directing customers to finish a transaction for digital items or companies on an exterior webpage, builders can select easy methods to design promotions, reductions, and different offers. The Apple-provided design templates, that are optimized for key buy and promotional use circumstances, are actually elective.
Distributing instantly out of your web site
Internet Distribution, accessible with a software program replace later this spring, will let licensed builders distribute their iOS apps to EU customers instantly from an internet site owned by the developer. Apple will present licensed builders entry to APIs that facilitate the distribution of their apps from the net, combine with system performance, again up and restore customers’ apps, and extra. For particulars, go to Preparing for Internet Distribution in the EU.