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handling payments

FWIW this is the main thing I like about the App Store rules. There are some sites and services I'll trust with payment information, but there are many, many more I won't. Being able to buy/subscribe to things anyway, with Apple as the trusted intermediary handling the payment, is pretty convenient.

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I don't think people give enough credit to how expensive it can be to pay the payment processors, given enough transactions. Maybe not so cost-effective for smaller businesses, but excellent for the bigger ones or when there are heavy spikes in payments.

Not only that, but letting your users not need to deal with credit card details or remembering their PayPal logins, whatever, is very frictionless and thus an attractive proposition for regular, non-technical users.

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