Apple (does) allow selling products with iPhone Apps!

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Apple (does) allow selling products with iPhone Apps!

Written by Gui.do X Jansen,
June 2010
Written by a human, not by AI

Today I posted a blog about Apple not allowing to sell physical products through an iPhone app. Gladly, I was wrong. I was looking at the Getting Started with In App Purchase on iPhone OS guide which refers to the 'In App Purchase system'. It's true that you can't use that to sell a physical product because of Apple regulation. But you don't need the whole 'In App Purchase' in the first place! So really my bad, but that means there's nothing holding you back from selling huge amounts of clothing, hardware, shoes, lawn mowers (or whatever you sell) through an iPhone app! Great thing to be wrong about :)

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