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It's not just that. As a developer I wouldn't want Apple to know who my paying customers are. Right now, there is no option. With this hopefully there will be m
by nutanc 5y ago
It's not just that. As a developer I wouldn't want Apple to know who my paying customers are. Right now, there is no option. With this hopefully there will be more options.
- webmobdev 5y agoExactly. And as a user too, I don't want Apple to have access to any of my financial transactions!
- cletus 5y agoThere's two sides to this actually. I, as a customer, don't want to pay many companies directly. The prime example is any news publication. There are many I'd happily pay for except (like gym memberships it seems) it can be incredibly difficult to cancel. I won't reward that model so they get none of my money.
- 8note 5y agoI think more specifically, as a customer, I don't want to be locked into bad subscriptions, whether it's gym memberships or news publications. I'm fine paying companies directly, but I don't want them to manage my subscriptions
- woko 5y agoThat is why I use Paypal. As a customer, why should I be constrained to use Apple's payment system as my only choice of middle-man?
- skohan 5y agoWhy not? Not that I think it's an unreasonable position, but there's generally going to be some payment processor who knows who your paying customers are, right?
- hnick 5y agoApple is also in the software business. Payment processors aren't. They're a potential competitor with the power to build their own version of your offering after seeing your numbers, and lock you out of the store.
- joshsyn 5y agoStop using apple then? Why do you need government to tell apple how to run their company? All these seems really absurd and incompetent coming from Epic.