No FT? Apple Says ‘No Comment’
Apple has removed the Financial Times app from the App Store, due to disagreements over in-app subscription payments. Despite winning an Apple Design award last year, Apple felt they could no longer play host to FT who were not content with Apple’s rule forbidding external links within an app to purchase content.
“The FT iPad and iPhone apps will no longer be available to new users through iTunes,” said a spokesperson. “We are directing readers to the FT‘s new web app available at app.ft.com. iTunes will remain an important channel for new and existing advertising based apps.”
FT has a HTML-5 based web app, which was launched in June to try to workaround Apple’s policies and already has over 550,000 users.
The app is still available for free on the Android Marketplace and you can subscribe within the app. To do so, go here.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter BA (Hons), ARPS is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator, and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.She holds a First Class Honours degree in Photography and is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS).Her journalism, criticism and editorial work have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography and NikonPro, among other international publications.Through TheAppWhisperer, she brings together academic knowledge, professional photographic expertise and more than 17 years of specialist editorial experience to examine contemporary photography, mobile imaging, computational photography, photographic applications and emerging imaging technologies.
