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by Patrick McKenzie
Late on Thursday, Apple announced some refinements to their App Store policies. The most important one is about so-called “steering”, which is the practice of letting customers know about out-of-app options for transacting with them. I couldn’t not write about the trifecta of payments, platform strategy, and video games. (Disclaimer: while I work at Stripe, these are my own opinions.)
Patrick McKenzie explains the legal and commercial pressure opening app-store payments to more competition.
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Duration
~12 minutes (12K characters)
Release date
Aug 27, 2021