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My main gripe with apple is their tactics around subscription fees. You can't direct your customers to sign-up via your website, circumventing apple to receive
by throwbackThurs 6y ago
My main gripe with apple is their tactics around subscription fees.
You can't direct your customers to sign-up via your website, circumventing apple to receive a 30% discount. Ultimately the customer suffers. They should have consumer awareness and choice, it's their right.
Then they give Netflix special sweetheart treatment, why?
I find these examples both deceptive and anti-competitive.
- scarface74 6y agoEvery company gives better deals to large companies than consumers. This is no different than any other industry. A starving singer discovered at a night club is not going to get the same deal from a label as Beyonce or Taylor Swift.
- drivingmenuts 6y agoProbably because Netflix is a more predictable income and was well-established before being available on iOS. There’s no way to know if your average fly-by-night 5$ app is going to be worth the disk space it’s stored on in the long haul. It may sell well, thereby justifying the expense of vetting it or it may be a total dud, in which case you’ve wasted staff time and energy putting it through the process allowing it to be sold. Netflix also fills a very broad niche, so big that it can’t really be called a niche. Giving them some leeway makes sense.