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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Alejandro86 for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, October 17, 2021, as part of the decision in Apple's lawsuit against Epic, a judge asked Apple to allow developers to add links and buttons to external payment options, so Apple later supported external payment links in iOS 15.5. But in fact, Apple didn't take it seriously, so only a small number of developers were licensed initially, even after the Netherlands was fined 50 million euros.

In the year of Pexels2022, Apple agreed to Korean developers to provide users with out-of-app payment options because of South Korea's newly revised Telecommunications Business Act. As a result, South Korea has become the first country in the world to open third-party payment for Apple's App Store application.

On January 17 this year, the Russian Federal Antitrust Service fined Apple 1.2 billion roubles (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 90.12 million yuan) for "binding Apple to use its own payment system."

Now, Apple has sent a notice to Russian developers that they can add external links to their App to make it easier for users to buy. To do this, they need StoreKit external purchase authorization API that adapts to iOS and iPadOS, which is the same as in South Korea.

It is worth mentioning that this policy applies only to Russian users, that is, external links are displayed only to App Store users in the Russian region, not to all countries, so Telegram downloaded in other regions will not display this feature.

Apple said it would charge a 27 per cent commission for Russian App that uses third-party payments, compared with 30 per cent for standard apps in App Store.

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