Re:App Store Subscriptions
by stanleydrew on Friday September 02, 2016 @04:13PM
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Tap #2 is bad enough.
I'm a relatively-infrequent Apple user who signed up for HBO Now when it first came out and you had to sign up exclusively via an iPhone App. As it turned out, you could use the credentials obtained from that signup to sign in with any web browser and stream content. You didn't need to use the app itself.
Apple was literally just handling payments and subscriptions for HBO Now, exclusively, for 3 months.
Imagine my frustration at trying to find out when my subscription was set to renew. Why am I supposed to know that iTunes and App Store settings is where I should look for anything to do with a subscription for something that isn't visibly tied to either iTunes or the App Store?
Taps #3 and #4 are truly banana-pants insane though.
Re:App Store Subscriptions
by fma on Friday September 02, 2016 @08:38PM
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Ah that's what it was. My dad complained about signing up for some HBO think and didn't know how to cancel. It was like $10 a month. He ended up just cancelling the credit card.
I'm a relatively-infrequent Apple user who signed up for HBO Now when it first came out and you had to sign up exclusively via an iPhone App. As it turned out, you could use the credentials obtained from that signup to sign in with any web browser and stream content. You didn't need to use the app itself.
Apple was literally just handling payments and subscriptions for HBO Now, exclusively, for 3 months.
Imagine my frustration at trying to find out when my subscription was set to renew. Why am I supposed to know that iTunes and App Store settings is where I should look for anything to do with a subscription for something that isn't visibly tied to either iTunes or the App Store?
Taps #3 and #4 are truly banana-pants insane though.