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I love Apple subscriptions. No way for you to scam me or make it hard ro cancel. I can view them all in the apple account subscription view. No tricks, no une
by Traubenfuchs 1y ago
I love Apple subscriptions.
No way for you to scam me or make it hard ro cancel. I can view them all in the apple account subscription view.
No tricks, no unexpected behaviour.
- rvnx 1y agoSame with Stripe, minus the 30% fee. Even better, if you accidentally let the renewal happen they will instantly refund in one-click.
- bloppe 1y agoThis is exactly the kind of innovation Apple apologists don't realize they're missing out on in the walled garden. You could still have easy, centralized billing with all-in-one management and one-click cancellation, while paying 30% less for everything. Give the free market a chance.
- skinnymuch 1y agoThat is the free market. That is why libertarians love the free market.
- bloppe 1y agoIdk if you just have a bone to pick with libertarians, but monopolized markets by definition are not free markets, regardless of how they arise
- lofijeff 1y agoThis IS the free market ya dingus.
- bloppe 1y agoIt's not a free market without meaningful choice. You can't say a slave is free because their master is free to enslave them, and they're free to escape if they can. Sometimes you need rules to create real freedom.
- Traubenfuchs 1y agoBut the only way to have it centralized is to have it integrated in iOS. Stripe already is a second place, non centralized, off platform. I don't want to hunt down my predatory subscriptions in multiple places.
- bloppe 1y agoWhy do you think that's the only way? Payment processors have long been able to differentiate recurring transactions from one-offs. Capital One has subscription management.
- calessian 1y agoHow the platform and the vendor split that money is irrelevant to me, and I’m not convinced this would become cheaper - evidently consumers are willing to pay the current price, so why wouldn’t the vendor just increase their profit? In the same vein: Games don’t cost less on the epic store despite their lower (compared to Steam) either, so as an end user it makes no difference where I buy games.
- bloppe 1y agohttps://expertbeacon.com/why-epic-games-is-cheaper-than-steam/ https://expertbeacon.com/why-epic-games-is-cheaper-than-stea... Maybe you like paying an extra 20%. That's your business. But fees like that affect the viability of lots of business ideas, including games. Having lower fees increases the pool of indie games.
- Traubenfuchs 1y agoManaging subscriptions in the apple account view, on stripe, on paypal and on whatever other platform wants their cut? No thanks.
- gtufano 1y agoYeah, technically. But just everyone _normal_ just pays using Stripe often without even knowing about it. On the _walled garden_ all is so clear that my 70 years aunt is able to do it. And there is no exceptions to the rule: every subscription made through the App Store is there and it's cancellable... 30% is a robbery, and the confusion on the customer "ownership" is true, but it's not useful for the discussion to negate the advantage the _garden_ offers to the basic consumer
- mavhc 1y agoAs Long As You Never Leave Us You Wouldn't Want To Leave Us Would You Why Would You Betray Us?
- beambot 1y ago> or make it hard ro [sic] cancel Unless you're trying to cancel the Apple ecosystem as a whole...