I’m surprised that they didn’t go one step further and force Apple to start allowing payment forms in app instead of launching the browser.
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Spotify Updates iPhone App With Out-of-App Payment Options in U.S.
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Random guess. Need data to back that up. Otherwise, my guess of "most developers like Apple" is just as valid.
So you don’t buy anything online?
Why must your way be the only way?
Why not the MacOS model where you can buy outside the App Store?
I could see Apple putting some sort of ‘trusted’ badge on apps that use IAP and then I can see them back in court as devs who don’t use IAP say it’s unfair and scaring consumers.
Well if you go by Marco Armet, who makes the overcast app and is a host on the extremely popular ATP podcast, a lot of developers are very unhappy with Apple. He has a pulse on the community better than most.
Play with words however you want. The developer community is not happy with happy, but you can continue to deny reality if you like.
..and payments and commissions are not the top complaint.
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Because it was a joke about how most of the world doesn’t actually care.
If you want a serious answer though, they were against it because they want to collect service fees. The average consumer doesn’t care about that stuff at all, and in this specific unique situation of Spotify, they were all already signing up outside of the app anyways.
This is my curiosity, too. These companies can't get a free ride off of Apple's back. There needs to be some compensation?
Or do they view it as their apps leading to more Apple hardware purchases?
To me it’s highly unlikely that iPhone users will leave the App Store anyway. We luv Apple products and the Walled Garden so why would we ever leave it? If iPhone users were interested in saving a few dollars we would be buying Samsung.
Yikes, that opens a can of worms.... your bank might be trustworthy, but if any "company" was allowed to distribute their own apps directly, you're going to see a LOT more malice than was delivered through the App Store.
Free ride? It's my phone it's being installed on. I paid for it, I pay for the cell service, the internet, the electricity to charge it.
The only "free-ride" is the middleman between my and the companies I want do business with.
Apple has been offering alternate payment options in the EU for over year and half now and as suspected no one is using them.
It's still a good opportunity for Apple to end the nonsense and finally allow normal software installation.
Tim Cook said the vast majority of apps in the App Store are free. Are Meta, Reddit, Uber getting a free ride?
I guess having your app in the App Store should be free and the advisement and the development tools to.
I won't be so quick to use external payment method, wonder how safe my card info will be.
Something for people to think about.
Something for people to think about.
why do then service providers limit transfer even if its paid? like cloud storage and such
For Microsoft the issue was two fold. They went through the whole testing phase of their app, then Apple blocked it because Apple stated they couldn't allow it because of the age restrictions on each game (how video apps get approved is beyond me, but apparently thats highly different). Then once Apple removed this issue after losing a court case, Microsoft wasn't willing to restart the process because of the fees Apple would charge for a gamepass subscription.