A subscription on the web is 4.99 and the same subscription via the official twitch iOS app is 5.99.
1. Searching, Opening the web page in Safari.
2. Signing-in.
3. Updating personal details.
4. Updating credit card details.
5. Making the payment.
Instead of clicking a button to save $1?
P.S. I would.
Most people are not rational about money, me included.
That seems significant for even the most lazy person.
This is where a credit card becomes useful, any credit card company worth its salt will seize charges to you immediately. I wouldn't even ever use a debit card online, it's far too risky.
3.1.3b
>your general communications about other purchasing methods must not discourage use of in-app purchase
It's vague (probably intentionally) but having a higher price in the app is certainly discouraging compared to the "normal" way.
I have a B2B app in the app-store which only has a login-screen on the app - so hopefully that won't attract Apple's attention, but if they do I was thinking about making our service-fee an Apple Pay ("real-life") purchase with lower fees where we'd mail the customer a brick with an activation code printed on... tempting...
Credit card networks have charges, and they used to tell businesses “you’re not allowed to pass this fee on to your customers”. I don’t know if they try to maintain this rule elsewhere, but this was confirmed to be illegal at some point in Australia (I dunno, maybe 10–15 years ago? I can’t immediately find a reference to the decision), so some businesses will say things like “1.5% surcharge for using Visa/Mastercard” (per https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/prices-surcharges-receipts..., the surcharge isn’t supposed to exceed the merchant’s actual costs; in practice I suspect it regularly does on small businesses, so that they can state a simple percentage rather than calculate more precise figures that vary by payment type).
If Apple tried to tell an Australian business “you may not pass the 30% fee on to your users”, I expect that business could appeal to… I don’t actually know who it would be, maybe the ACCC?
B2B apps are exempt from the the IAP requirements.
It's an important question to SaaS products that want to pivot to B2C or launch a B2C view of a B2B product.
Take Office 365 for example, originally it was B2B for the first few years then Microsoft made it available to everyone. Similarly, would you consider Adobe Creative Cloud a B2B service or B2C?
I’m sure Best Buy wouldn’t want you to advertise in Best Buy that you can find the product cheaper on Amazon.
They straight up won't allow you to do this.... I've tried before, and got a call from the Apple Reviewer to say that they won't allow anything like this to be published.