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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by snorlaxle on Friday March 15, 2019 @03:57AM (#19397568)
I buy Steam games from Humble Bundle all the time. The developers can actually generate steam keys and sell their game directly. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

As far as I know you can't do that on iOS. There's also nothing stopping the devs from selling IAP themselves on their own website. So no, Steam is much much more open than Apple's App store. Not to mention the fact that Steam is completely optional and the App store is not.

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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by madeofpalk on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:26AM (#19399456)
> As far as I know you can't do that on iOS.

Not at scale, no, but you can generate promo codes (up to a limit - maybe 100?) to distribute your paid app for free.

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