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It can be much easier to separate people from their money using the App Store model. As soon as you throw up a long-ass payment screen, where I have to fill in
by potatolicious 15y ago
It can be much easier to separate people from their money using the App Store model.
As soon as you throw up a long-ass payment screen, where I have to fill in name, billing address, CC info, etc, a lot of people will bail, both out of distrust for you and sheer inconvenience (doubly true for platforms with meh text input like phones and tablets).
Compare with integrating with a payment service that is almost guaranteed to already be set up correctly and is a single password away from transaction.
- sedev 15y agoOne can hardly emphasize this point enough. iOS users buy shit. The process of buying stuff on iOS is easy, easy, easy. It's unusual for it to be more than just the password prompt and the tiny pause for verification. When buying things is that easy, people buy more, and developers genuinely do make it up on volume. That's why the iOS App Store does so well - it has a solid track record of making money for developers. That's why developers in the iOS App Store put up with the restrictions it imposes - because you can make good money there.