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- WordPress is adding in-app purchases to its previously free iOS app after claiming Apple prevented it from making updates until the change was made, The Verge reported Friday.
- WordPress' founding developer said in a tweet Friday that Apple cut off developers from making updates to the app unless they started letting users buy domain names within the app — a service the app doesn't currently include.
- The Verge reported that WordPress agreed, meaning Apple effectively pressured a free app into monetizing itself, allowing it to take a 30% commission on future purchases.
- Apple's App Store policies, particularly its requirement that app developers use Apple's payment systems and give the company a 30% cut, has frustrated developers for years — and recently, lawmakers who say it's monopolistic behavior.
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Apple's battle with app developers heated up again Friday after WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg claimed that the company locked developers out from making updates until it added in-app purchases to the free iOS app, The Verge reported.
"Heads up on why @WordPress iOS updates have been absent... we were locked by App Store. To be able to ship updates and bug fixes again we had to commit to support in-app purchases for .com plans," Mullenweg tweeted Friday.
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