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You have to purchase a subscription, but you can cancel at any time. If you purchase an in-app subscription through the App Store with your Apple ID, the only
by thought_alarm 8y ago
You have to purchase a subscription, but you can cancel at any time.
If you purchase an in-app subscription through the App Store with your Apple ID, the only option is a yearly subscription.
If you purchase a subscription directly from Microsoft's website, you can purchase either a yearly or monthly subscription.
The yearly subscription costs the same in both cases, and is cheaper unless you only want to use the app for a few months.
- judge2020 8y ago> The yearly subscription costs the same in both cases, Is this through in-app purchases? It would seem counterintuitive to let Apple take 30% from the yearly subscription if they've gotten away with distributing outside the app store for so long. (but they may have a special revenue share agreement)
- thought_alarm 8y agoThat's how it has always been. If a company acquires a new subscription through the App Store then Apple processes the subscription and takes 30% the first year and 15% of each subsequent year. Apple doesn't claim any percentage of subscriptions acquired outside of the App Store. If Microsoft acquires a new user and subscription through the App Store then Apple is entitled to their cut. If Microsoft acquires a new subscription organically outside of the App Store then Apple is obviously not entitled to a cut. If Microsoft doesn't want the ability to acquire new subscriptions through the App Store (and pay Apple for it) then that's their prerogative, but right now that's not the case.