Apple enables developer-to-developer app sales in iOS7
Developer guide also points to dedicated MFi game controller
iOS7, the newly announced mobile operating system release from Apple, will enable developers to sell ownership of their apps to one another for the first time.
Previously this has not been possible, which has created problems when app developers have been bought by competitors, or diverse development houses have wanted to consolidate their apps under one roof.
The new facility now enables app ownership to be transferred when the owner changes the state of their app in iTunes Connect. They also have to notify the developer into whose ownership the software is being transferred and ensure that they accept the deal.
From that point the app will be entirely operated by the new company, who will be able to update and modify it as if they were the original creators.
The terms were revealed by Venturebeat in a screenshot of the update sent to developers.
Meanwhile, Apple updated its developers website with designs that reveal that the firm is keen to impose standards on iOS as a gaming device, and the peripheral controllers used to operate them.