Apple In-App Purchasing Failure is Costing Developers

Apple's in-app purchasing system has been failing for over 11 hours now, notes Engadget.

We're hearing unconfirmed speculation that the problem may be connected to fake purchase receipts getting into the system. Whatever the cause, one developer told us the failure is "losing lots of sales" for apps that use receipt verification and is "threatening to more-or-less take down the entire IAP ecosystem."

It's likely that Apple is working on the issue; however, a loss of half a day's sales is quite significant to many developers.


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