Re: Apple AppStore revenues - 85%+ come from games

On 12/11/2014 01:49 PM, Andy McKay wrote:
>>> If we are going to do in-app payments correctly, how are we
>>> going to know that we did them correctly if we don't have anyone
>>> from that industry involved?
> 
> At Mozilla we treat in-app payments the same as any other payment 
> past a certain point. The differences are around initiation of the 
> payment and delivery, especially in terms of security.

+1

Also, hey Andy, great to see you here. :)

> It’s hard for me to say exactly how that impacts this group, since 
> I’m not sure exactly what this group covers.

In-app payments are definitely in scope, as is most of the ecosystem
around doing in-app payments (in any currency, in any part of the world).

> Lurking to try and figure that out :)

There is very little that is considered "out of scope" for /discussion/
in this group. We do experimental/pre-standardization work here and we
try to be as inclusive as possible. This is a pretty good outline of
what this group covers (see "Scope of Work"):

http://www.w3.org/community/webpayments/charter/

-- manu

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