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>If that's an edge case, y'all are wrong.

I don't want to pay an extra 30%, and have that 30% taken away from the devs who actually deserve the money, because _some_ might make it hard to cancel.

Most would likely just have a Paypal button same as 90% of websites if that makes you feel better.

Devs "deserving the money" is a curious statement. I don't deserve dark patterns and stress in exchange for a subscription, do I?

And it doesn't make me feel better, because that's exactly the hellworld we have outside of iOS, but thanks!

Apple can still enforce in their rules the ability to cancel from one place

If that's all they'd done from the beginning this ruling would not have happened.

Apple wants to control the access to a very significant portion of the user base?

Fine, but then they'll act like a lawmaker-light and in many (western) societies that means you get some burdens and responsibilities piled upon you by the original lawmakers.

> Maybe Apple can straitjacket them properly. "You must use XYZ API in iOS/MacOS and you must support one-click cancellation via a standard process." But I think the dark-pattern farmers who are angry about this would be angry about that, too.

Im not sure Apple want's to do that. By not restricting the 3rd party payments there is more of a case for using Apple's payment processor so you can cancel easier.

This is my hope as well. This ruling explicitly pushed back against the attacks on App Store review and other Store policies - and as such they can still leverage that into a requirement to implement some API that allows one click control of recurring subscriptions.