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Re:Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid ... by mehrdada on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:38AM (#24154496)
Apple only extracts that revenue from apps if you want to directly take payment through the app. Both Netflix and Spotify work on iOS. They just are not collecting payments or doing new signups there. So in your analogy the student is presumably registered already with the school and Apple doesn’t take a cut at all, even today.
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Re:Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid ... by wayneftw on Friday August 14, 2020 @08:44AM (#24157136)
> Apple only extracts that revenue from apps if you want to directly take payment through the app.

Even if you take payment through your app that you built with your own payment processor.

Why is Apple standing between me and my school again? They made a profit off of the hardware that I purchased from them and now they’re just standing there stopping me from paying for what I want on the device that I bought.

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Re:Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid ... by cma on Friday August 14, 2020 @09:20AM (#24157554)
That specific carve out is limited to consume-only media apps and wouldn't apply to an interactive remote learning app with more than just a library of prerecorded lectures.

HEY acquired customers outside of the app but still wasn't allowed.

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