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Re:Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads m... by ayyyolo on Thursday August 27, 2020 @10:26PM (#24300815)
ahh it all makes sense now...so that's why I have to go to the web to buy stuff in Fandango/Vudu.

How come these companies don't do something similar for subscriptions? ex: HBO Now (or whatever the fuck it's called these days) could have a subscribe button that takes you out of the app to their site - completely circumventing the in-app subscription purchase. Right?

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Re:Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads m... by john-shaffer on Thursday August 27, 2020 @10:42PM (#24300890)
Apple will ban them if they do that. You're not allowed to link to or even mention alternative payment methods. You can't even point out that the price is 43% higher to cover Apple's cut.
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Re:Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads m... by blntechie on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:32AM (#24303002)
Because apps can’t link to purchase outside the App Store. Let alone link, they can’t even mention they can purchase the content elsewhere either with images, text or any form.
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Re:Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads m... by mtrovo on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:57AM (#24303138)
I think this is so silly on Apple side as they try to have a name on raising the bar for user experience. And the worse is that before I realized what was going on I thought it was Amazon fault for some reason, which is even better for Apple as people would normally blame the developers rather than the platform for this design decision.
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