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Native support for buying PWAs (or at least in-app purchases) would probably be a game changer yes. It sounds possible in theory: Apple gets to keep their 30%

by alin23 4y ago

Native support for buying PWAs (or at least in-app purchases) would probably be a game changer yes. It sounds possible in theory: Apple gets to keep their 30% cut while allowing devs to sell even more apps. But they would have no way of screening the PWAs, and if a PWA reaches enough feature parity to be usable by big sellers of subscriptions like Netflix, those sellers will surely invest effort in creating a PWA with their own payment SDK that bypasses Apple’s cut. This is where I think the incentives are not aligned. Small devs want an easy to use monetization framework and are happy to give a percentage of their income for that, but Apple might want more large sellers which bring far more money for less managing effort.

intrasight 4y ago
I don't see any intersection of Apple and Netflix. Big media services like Netflix have their own subscription services. >This is where I think the incentives are not aligned But could be aligned to everyone's benefit.
- alin23 4y ago
  You might not be familiar with the App Store restriction on in-app links/buttons to external payment methods. An app on the App Store must only provide subscriptions through Apple's own means which gives them a 30% cut of every subscription payment. It took a long legal battle to allow Netflix to show a button to their own external subscription website: https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-says-japan-fair-trade-commission-closes-app-store-investigation-2021-09-02/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-says-japan-fair-tra... But even so, there are a lot of other big sellers which haven't yet got their external button approved.
smoldesu 4y ago
> Small devs want an easy to use monetization framework and are happy to give a percentage of their income for that Small devs want competition. Apple goes out of their way to prevent that, you can't sing it's praises when it's literally the only option.

by alin23 4y ago

intrasight 4y ago

I don't see any intersection of Apple and Netflix. Big media services like Netflix have their own subscription services. >This is where I think the incentives are not aligned But could be aligned to everyone's benefit.

alin23 4y ago
You might not be familiar with the App Store restriction on in-app links/buttons to external payment methods. An app on the App Store must only provide subscriptions through Apple's own means which gives them a 30% cut of every subscription payment. It took a long legal battle to allow Netflix to show a button to their own external subscription website: https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-says-japan-fair-trade-commission-closes-app-store-investigation-2021-09-02/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-says-japan-fair-tra... But even so, there are a lot of other big sellers which haven't yet got their external button approved.

smoldesu 4y ago

> Small devs want an easy to use monetization framework and are happy to give a percentage of their income for that Small devs want competition. Apple goes out of their way to prevent that, you can't sing it's praises when it's literally the only option.