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Apple reverses its decision, and allows WordPress’ iOS app to not include in-app purchases

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Apple has reversed its decision to force WordPress' iOS app from mandatorily adding in-app purchase features, the company's founder Matt Mullenweg said in a tweet on August 23. Last week, Mullwenweg had taken to Twitter revealing that the WordPress app on iOS hadn’t received updates in a while because Apple had locked them out of the App Store, for not supporting Apple’s mandated in-app purchases mechanism. Apple had blocked updates to the app for over three weeks. The issue, seemingly, was that the app allowed users to know that WordPress has paid tiers (support pages, or by navigating to WordPress’s site from a preview of their own webpage). However, there was still no way of purchasing those premium offerings from within the app. Incidentally, Mullenweg had offered Apple to remove any mentions of WordPress paid tiers so that the update could be rolled out, however, Apple had rejected the offer. Apple also offered a rare public apology. In a statement to the Verge, it said that "the issue with the WordPress app has been resolved. Since the developer removed the display of their service payment options from the app, it is now a free stand-alone app and does not have to offer in-app purchases. We have informed the developer and apologize for any confusion that we have caused". Apple's decision also came as a surprise to Mullenweg himself, as he thought that Apple's decision to force WordPress to add an in-app purchase system in its iOS app was "final", and…

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