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IIRC any subscriptions and/or purchases driven by apps downloaded from the App Store are subject to a fee paid to Apple. That's according to their (garbage) App
by iLoch 10y ago
IIRC any subscriptions and/or purchases driven by apps downloaded from the App Store are subject to a fee paid to Apple. That's according to their (garbage) App Store rules.
- coldtea 10y agoAre there many commercial stores (especially one pushing 50 billions of product) without such "garbage" (sic) rules?
- Oletros 10y agoGoogle, for example
- st3v3r 10y agoNope. They have plenty of garbage rules of their own. Also, they have the same rule Apple does in this case.
- Oletros 10y agoNo, they don't have the same rule, nor Spotify, nor Netflix nor Amazon music have to use Google payment system
- st3v3r 10y agohttps://play.google.com/about/monetization-ads/ https://play.google.com/about/monetization-ads/ Right there. "Developers offering products within another category of app downloaded on Google Play must use Google Play In-app Billing as the method of payment" The exceptions are for physical things, and for things that can be used outside of the app. You can't use a Spotify subscription outside of Spotify.
- Tiksi 10y agoYou can absolutely use it outside of the iOS Spotify app.
- MBCook 10y agoSorry for the accidental down vote. Dead on correct.
- Oletros 10y agoNo, dead on incorrect
- Oletros 10y agoThe full rule > Payment is for digital content that may be consumed outside of the app itself (e.g. songs that can be played on other music players). As Spotify music can be used outside the Goole Play app, Google doesn't take a cute. The same reason I can buy Kindle ebooks within the Android app
- ominous 10y agoCommercial stores? I pay for the app, not for the store. I use Aquamail: http://www.aqua-mail.com/?page_id=22 http://www.aqua-mail.com/?page_id=22 I paid the developer for a license and don't need a special "app store" to use it. What is all this talk about "rules" that specify which binary files I can run on a general purpose machine? Can you sideload apps in iOS? Oh right. It is the current year again and everyone loves the iPhone because it is shiny, forgot you can install apps on your own, and prefer to have a gatekeeper do it for them. Carry on.
- zepto 10y agoIf you were paying attention, you would see that it's completely acceptable for people to sign up for Spotify and pay directly at the Spotify website, and then use the app with that subscription. Apple is doing nothing to interfere with the scenario that you outline and will happily distribute millions of Spotify binaries in support of that. Your anger is misplaced.