There'll always be some people who are unscrupulously honest and upstanding but many won't be.
Just wait until apps can use 3rd party payment systems. Good luck getting out of any subscription or refunds.
if you read the article more closely you will have noticed it said 'Apple requests..' With this new pilot commerce being tested removes liabilty away from Apple and places it in the hands of the app-dev's. Thus, if an app-dev increases their prices and a customer does not pay too much attention to the price increase notice thus forgetting to change their subscription, the customer cannot then go and blame Apple because Apple can just turn around and say, 'no longer our responsibility, we put it in the hands of the app-devs, go complain to them'.
Doesn’t it make sense for apple to charge fees when the dev earns revenue from the platform? Devs are free to set their price and apple earns revenue when the devs do.
You make an offer. Customer accepts. You have a deal.
I wish the world really worked that way with:
Why not? If a subscription is raised in price, the company needs to inform you. And you can cancel without penalty within 3 months. But if you don’t respond your insurance or internet provider subscription will go up.
The customer is free to decline the price increase by cancelling the subscription. Where does it say they can't cancel?
We're not unsympathetic to Ukraine's plight, but if "first world problems" are going to get invoked on websites that aren't for this sort of discussion (save for specific boards that allow politics, religion, sex, etc.), then that'll turn EVERY TOPIC into that sort of divergence.
I don't agree with this change either, but none of those services you listed give you an Opt-in choice. If you were subscribed to Netflix, then you automatically experienced a price change to your subscription. Sure they emailed you, but they changed the price they charged and your only recourse was to read the email ahead of time and choose to unsubscribe before the price change. That is no different from what may occur with App Store subscriptions with this change. I would love for Apple to continue the Opt-In policy but it won't be any worse from what everyone else does right now.
You’re being intentionally obtuse. Please contribute to the discussion or refrain from posting.
Shady. Just goes to show how corporate processes can rationalize the immoral.
Apple appears to be testing a new feature that would allow developers to automatically charge users when a subscription price goes up, according to TechCrunch.
Right now, Apple asks customers to explicitly agree to subscription pricing increases when the cost of a subscription goes up. If a customer does not tap on the presented "Agree to New Price" button, their subscription is automatically canceled. But if the new functionality that Apple is testing rolls out, customers may simply be notified of an upcoming change, rather than being given the choice to cancel. Essentially, Apple is testing an opt-out system rather than an opt-in system for subscription pricing changes.
When Disney+ recently increased its prices to $7.99 per month, some developers noticed that the Disney+ app sent out a notification that was more of an alert about a price increase rather than a clear opt-in choice. Disney+ subscribers received a notification with a large "OK" button letting them know about the change, but there was no built-in opt-out button, with the app instead providing a link to change the subscription.
Other developers noticed similar behavior for different subscriptions, and an Apple spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that it is running a pilot test on a new subscription system.If this change rolls out more widely, App Store users will need to keep a closer eye on their subscriptions, as it will be easier for a pricing increase to go under the radar without the express opt-in system that's currently in place.
Apple would not provide more details on the pilot test, and did not offer information on the apps that are currently involved or when the feature might roll out more widely to all developers.
Article Link: Developers May Soon Be Able to Automatically Charge Apple Users for Subscription Price Increases
