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Apple has supported the Payments Request API for five years

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Payment_Req...

https://webkit.org/blog/8182/introducing-the-payment-request...

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Correct. The article is about a new standard.

The conjecture was that Apple wouldn’t support the new standard because it would give an “app like experience”.

The closest similarity we have is that Apple supported the existing payment standard relatively early on.

Does the existing standard make the web more app-like?

The existing one, you click on a button on the web and it takes you through the same Apple Pay process flow that you go through when you pay in app with Apple Pay for something like Uber.

In app purchases - Apple takes 30% for electronic goods in the App Store

Apple Pay - Apple charges standard credit card fees on the web or via the App Store.

As mentioned above, you can use Apple Pay in app if you sell physical goods.

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