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 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.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
