And it shouldn't be the only provider beside Apple payment system. There should multiple options for sure.
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Apple Now Letting Developers Automatically Charge for Some Subscription Price Increases
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And it shouldn't be the only provider beside Apple payment system. There should multiple options for sure.
I don’t like this. There’s no benefit to consumers, only Apple and the devs to make more money
Most definitely! I don’t buy anything from the App Store anymore. All there is anymore is free games that you can’t get anywhere unless you spend a lot of money or programs that want to lock you into a subscription. Give me a flat price to pay for a program!
I’m going to take a very close at my subscriptions and start canceling anything that isn’t absolutely essential.
And worse, you have to delve into an app to actually find out the pricing model. And almost every app is "free to download", but the actual pricing model is so extravagantly expensive for what it is, with subscription layers and feature buy ins, I just can't be bothered even looking anymore.
If Apple let you search by pricing model, I'd be more interested. Freeware, shareware, donation-ware, subscription-ware, in-app-purchase-ware, and so on.
To everyone who don't use subscriptions / hate them and commented against this: I don't see why bother, you are not going to be affected. I like and dislike subscriptions at the same time. I try really hard to avoid them but for certain things I have to have them. For instance I have a football app that tells me which game will be aired and which channel, saves me a lot of time and I consider this app a valid use case for a subscription: it gives new "content" that I can't easily get elsewhere and it saves me time being very reasonably priced as well (£2.99 / year).
So now about this change. I certainly dislike it and I think the percentages are set too high. I then realised that the best solution for this issue would have been for Apple to give the user the ability to decide which percentage of subscription increase they are willing to accept automatically. That will really put the user in the driving seat. Personally I will not auto accept anything more than 10% increase and even a 10% increase I might reject as I will need to convinced the app developer has reasonable grounds to raise the prices.
As soon as Netflix raised prices I cancelled Netflix for a month to send them a clear signal I don't want prices to go up. I then resubscribed but on the standard plan not the ultra. So Netflix ended up getting less from me after the raise, not more. If we all behaved like this companies will be a lot more careful with price raises.
So now about this change. I certainly dislike it and I think the percentages are set too high. I then realised that the best solution for this issue would have been for Apple to give the user the ability to decide which percentage of subscription increase they are willing to accept automatically. That will really put the user in the driving seat. Personally I will not auto accept anything more than 10% increase and even a 10% increase I might reject as I will need to convinced the app developer has reasonable grounds to raise the prices.
As soon as Netflix raised prices I cancelled Netflix for a month to send them a clear signal I don't want prices to go up. I then resubscribed but on the standard plan not the ultra. So Netflix ended up getting less from me after the raise, not more. If we all behaved like this companies will be a lot more careful with price raises.
No problem then, app developers can pick the payment option that requires users to opt-in to price increases rather than opt-out, when that becomes possible.