Apple has adjusted the conditions for mobile app developers. Apps that depend on other apps to work is frowned upon.
It came to threaten all Swedish apps bank id, wrote Site Breakit.se this week.
While Norwegian banks have made a number of competitive payment solutions, the Swedes have teamed up on a joint solution for mobile payment, Swish. This app with 4.5 million active users was only one of many that are dependent on bank id.
The conditions made it suddenly impossible to release a new version in the App Store.
After having sweated for a few days, the Swedes could breathe a sigh of relief.
Apple will in fact have made an exception for bank-id in Sweden. Contrary to the ban on apps that rely on other apps, which will remain.
There is the Apple top Phil Schiller responsible for the App Store, which apparently even confirms this in an email Breakit.se renders.
BankID in Norway phases out their app
BankID in Norway had before an iOS app, which in combo with third party apps probably would have been affected. The same had Buypass.
If we go a few years back it was so app Norwegian Tipping, for example, sends users a round trip back Buypass app for secure identification. Not so anymore.
Buypass have long since phased out its old plan, and is not worried about Apple terms. BankID fear no consequences.
– We want to phase out our apps and put a plan for it these days, says communications manager Hege Steinsland in BankID Norway to digi.no.
She elaborates:
– the apps ours are very rarely used in that we have web-client and mobile BankID. Monday this week, the proportion of transactions on iOS 0.5 percent and Android 0.4 percent of all transactions with BankID.
– Is probably more dramatic in Sweden than in Norway
John Eivind Hallén is CEO appbyrået Shortcut.
– This probably is more dramatic in Sweden than in Norway, since bankid the mobile solution is not an app in the same way, and the bankid app in Norway fortunately have not caught on, says Hallén to digi.no.
it is his experience that apps that require downloading other apps to function, provide a poor user experience.
After the digi .com understand it and Subsection 4.2.3 which constitutes the relevant point in Apple’s review guidelines for App Store. Here it is stated that the app should work on their own without having to require the installation of another app.
– It looks like it again are new changes in App Stores regulations. Our experience is that it genuinely is all about making sure that the positive user experience when you start to use apps. If so, Apple and our attention immediately. We do not think this will have major consequences for our app projects, concludes Shortcut boss.
digi.no has been in dialogue with several actors. If anyone would have problems with Apple’s enforcement of the above conditions, payment services maybe a category that stands out.
So far it has not been possible to confirm.
– The new rules in Apple’s App Store has no consequences for tilting or DNB payment apps, sounds the answer from the bank’s communications advisor Marit Elisabeth Giske.
Likewise, we asked Danske Bank on the terms may create problems for their MobilePay. After two days came the following reply:
– As of now we do not see that this could have consequences for MobilePay but we are about to take a review of this, says the leader of MobilePay, Knut Anders Wangen.
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