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"the Netflix iOS app no longer lets you sign up for a subscription. Instead, new users are booted into the web browser to sign up on Netflix.com. Since this tra
by helloindia 8y ago
"the Netflix iOS app no longer lets you sign up for a subscription. Instead, new users are booted into the web browser to sign up on Netflix.com. Since this transaction happens outside the app, Netflix doesn’t have to give Apple its 30 percent cut.."
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"This approach is even more extreme than what Spotify does on iOS. If you sign up for a subscription via Apple’s platform, the cost is $12.99 per month to cover the Apple fees. If you sign up online, Spotify only charged $9.99. It has even reached out to customers to help them transfer their membership outside of Apple’s sandbox..."
https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/276066-netflix-experiments-with-bypassing-apple-app-store-subscription-fees https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/276066-netflix-experiment...
- alanlamm 8y agoTry doing that as a non-multi-billion dollar company and your app gets rejected. The guidelines specify that in-app-content MUST use the Apple in-app-purchase system
- m-p-3 8y agoBeing Netflix has its benefits, because smaller devs definitely got their app booted out because they tried the same workaround. There cannot be any kind of linking to an outside payment system, even a web redirection.