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Re:Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing by forty on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @05:47PM (#30783888)
What if there was another payment system available on iphone with similar subscription centralisation service, with only 10% fee? Would you use that instead?

IMO the main problem is the lack of competition. If Apple were forced to accept other payment platforms, you'd soon find the same service for cheaper.

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Re:Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing by nerdjon on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @05:50PM (#30783929)
I don't necessarily care that its Apple.

But the only reason that this works the way it does, is because a developer has to use it. If there really was a third party offering that was just as easy to use sure, why not. But I just don't see companies willingly making it easy to cancel a service without trying to send the customer through some retention workflow.

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