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I'm gonna take a wild guess at what's going to happen: - If you're an existing, popular service on iOS, you get grandfathered in, and you get to keep your curr
by lukifer 16y ago
I'm gonna take a wild guess at what's going to happen:
- If you're an existing, popular service on iOS, you get grandfathered in, and you get to keep your current way of doing things so long as you don't rock the boat.
- If you are a new application/service, you have to pay 30%. No workarounds, no exceptions.
My theory is this: if Apple tightly enforces the policy on services customers already know and love, at least some will be forced to remove their offerings from iOS. Existing users are disappointed, and are now (a) upset with Apple, and (b) incentivized to go buy an Android.
On the other hand, if a service is small and not yet widespread, most users won't be disappointed if that service can't afford to put itself on the iPhone, and there are plenty of other apps/services to choose from, so no incentive to leave the iOS walled garden.
- baddox 16y agoYou're probably right, and boy is that evil.
- randall 16y agoYeah, I had been semi-ok with it till now. Now, I realize a lot of these companies really can't make the 30% work. I wonder if they could just make it as a "consumption only" device... like don't have a link to get a new customer, only allow people to subscribe through the web.
- lukifer 16y ago> only allow people to subscribe through the web My understanding is that the terms of the App Store explicitly forbid this.
- timmaah 16y agoExactly.. how does Apple ban the Netflix app?