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This is totally incorrect. If you have an app on Apple store and sell subscripttions through your website, or other means, Apple forces you to sell the same sub
by ubersync 7y ago
This is totally incorrect. If you have an app on Apple store and sell subscripttions through your website, or other means, Apple forces you to sell the same subscriptions through their store.
- rahoulb 7y agoI use Spotify, FreeAgent, Toggl, Zoom, Pipedrive, Asana and Trello (plus Basecamp previously) on my iOS devices - and pay for all of those through the respective websites without any option to pay in the App Store. (Edit: I know Spotify used to have an option for it but they dropped that and I never used it anyway)
- dmitriid 7y agoIt doesn’t force you, but if you don’t, you can’t even tell people how to subscribe. See Spotify, Kindle.
- threeseed 7y agoYou can tell people how to subscribe outside the app. But you just can't use Apple's own platform against them.
- ClassyJacket 7y agoYou can't link, at least, to an external website to buy https://www.pcworld.com/article/229880/Apple_Backs_Off_In_App_Subscription_Demands_Says_No_to_Buy_Links.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/229880/Apple_Backs_Off_In_Ap...
- Jagat 7y agoYou can't even tell that such a thing exists. E.g., Audible only gives you an option to add to the wish list, and is mum about how to buy a book.
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- hesarenu 7y agoSo in a way apple is forcing them.
- arien 7y agoHm... The Amazon Prime app doesn't allow purchases in the app, you've got to purchase through Amazon and then you can watch them just fine.