Apple Kills Financial Times App Over Subscriptions

 

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href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/financial-times-rejects-apples-app-store-subscription-model/2011/04/04/">Way back in April, the Financial Times announced that they didn’t want anything to do with Apple’s in-app subscription guidelines, refusing to offer subscriptions inside the app where Apple could take a 30% cut of it. This saw them ditch the app model and href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/apple-changes-tune-on-in-app-subscriptions/2011/06/09/">switch to a web app instead in July. Finally, href="http://paidcontent.org/article/419-apple-has-finally-pulled-financial-times-from-ios/">Apple has noticed and killed the FT apps, removing them from the App Store for not toeing the line.

href="http://paidcontent.org/article/419-apple-has-finally-pulled-financial-times-from-ios/">According to PaidContent, the company viewed keeping a firm grip on user data and not giving Apple a 30% cut a far more valuable proposition than the 10% of subscriptions that appear to be what the iPad has netted them.

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