Just over a month after Amazon changed its Kindle iPhone and iPad apps to comply with Apple’s new rules on in-app payments, the iTunes App Store has seen its first major casualty from the policy change. The Financial Times’ iPhone and iPad apps have been removed from the store. The FT says its main disagreement with Apple was over access to subscriber data but the ability to send users to an external subscription page was clearly a factor.
The FT is now encouraging readers to use its HTML5 web app instead. A spokesperson told paidContent: “The FT iPad and iPhone apps will no longer be available to new users through iTunes. We are directing readers to the FT‘s new web app available at app.ft.com. iTunes will remain an important channel for new and existing advertising based apps.”
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