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Re:You download the app and it doesn’t work by donmcronald on Friday June 19, 2020 @06:58PM (#23579717)
Paying 10% of your revenue for them to usurp your customer relationship seems like a bad deal to me.

For developers I think a possible strategy would be to sell two products; standard edition and iOS optimized. Charge +30% for the iOS version since Apple users are (supposedly) willing to pay more.

Re:You download the app and it doesn’t work by pfranz on Friday June 19, 2020 @10:59PM (#23581172)
Charging iPhone users more was actually one of the suggestions Phil Schiller made. I'm pretty sure Spotify charges more for people who subscribe from within the iPhone app. They made a lot of noise a year or two ago about this and ended up with this approach.

Personally, I'm very skeptical of subscription options since many companies are bad actors; making it difficult to cancel or throwing adds and promotions at you.