Consider the situation if Apple didn’t require this in some way, shape, or form. There’d be dozens of articles about your tech-unsavvy grandma and how they cou

Consider the situation if Apple didn’t require this in some way, shape, or form. There’d be dozens of articles about your tech-unsavvy grandma and how they couldn’t unsubscribe the way they normally do, and would blame Apple for it. I, for one, would not want to deal with the trouble of teaching my parents that some purchases in the App Store are through the App Store, and some aren’t.