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Re:Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads m... by gumby on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:56PM (#24298573)
Netflix stopped offering subscription through the app (last year IIRC) for this reason, though they grandfathered existing iOS-mediated subscriptions for the obvious customer retention reasons.

Also I don’t think you can subscribe to amazon prime via the iOS app — you certainly can’t buy video via the prime video app!

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Re:Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads m... by ArchOversight on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:59PM (#24298606)
You CAN buy video using the Amazon Prime Video app, it is in the category where Apple gets a 15% cut of the sale.
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Re:Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads m... by wjnc on Thursday August 27, 2020 @05:24PM (#24298857)
The funny thing is that switching to non-Apple payment is hard (I get that that's Apple) and the support staff of Netflix was really helpful in making me switch.
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Re:Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads m... by whakim on Thursday August 27, 2020 @07:54PM (#24300019)
It's actually really annoying, implementation-wise. Apple subscriptions are read-only for third parties, which creates some annoying hurdles where you have to warp your data model to accommodate the fact that someone could have two subscriptions to the same thing at the same time, which normally you wouldn't want to allow them to do.
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