> Apple settled this lawsuit by giving up virtually nothing
Isn't Apple letting "developers...share purchase options with users outside of their iOS app" the whole point of the suit? That's opening up an end around to their 30% cut.
Isn't Apple letting "developers...share purchase options with users outside of their iOS app" the whole point of the suit? That's opening up an end around to their 30% cut.
Want to cancel a subscription? Cool, just do it through iPhone’s Settings. No questions asked. There. Done. No “call our customer line/chat to cancel your subscription”. Want to renew it? Same place. Prices are clear and no “small print” non-sense.
Most anything else is user hostile. Why that might be, and why it’s popular to support doing those hostile things to users, makes you go ‘hmmm’.
You’re left with running after the users to close their iOS subscriptions if they cut ties with your service.
It's pretty clear that they're not allowing advertising alternative options in the app itself. You need to have some kind of a secondary communication channel with the user, which basically no app maker will be able to establish.
To further support this interpretation, note that the text is explicitly claiming that this is just a clarification of the policy, not a change in policy.