I will never subscribe to services for the most part if they don’t provide a way via Apple. I’m sorry but I don’t want to email, call someone, answer hundred questions of why I want to unsubscribe etc. I want a single click unsubscribe with no questions asked. A very handful of companies do this. If they earn my trust then I will, until then I prefer to do it via Apple.

EU regulation states that digitally purchased subscriptions must be able to be cancelled digitally.

There is also nothing in the law that prevents developers from asking a higher price for Apple's payment system if that's what you prefer. If you want to pay the additional 25% for your convenience, then you're free to do so. Apple is the one taking they freedom away from you in this draft, adding a rule that developers can no longer use Apple Pay if they choose for an alternative payment provider.

Apple is free to not handle payments for an app if they don't want to, but if you're mad as a user, be mad at Apple. I think everyone agrees that there's a real benefit to Apple Pay, and if you're willing to pay for that benefit you definitely should.

PayPal has been doing this for years. In fact just last week I unsubscribed from something with one click on the PayPal site.

Yeah but then your account gets frozen for no reason

The point is that any payment processor can do the same thing, no Apple needed. And indeed that's what the new EU regulation will soon require.

Ture, but PayPal is notorious about this. So yeah, as a consumer, I like paypal. As a merchant, I'd never touch it

Charging back a single bad actor doesn't get your Apple/Steam/Google account banned, though.

Apple could almost certainly enforce apps offering unsubscribe functionality though a standard interface without forcing them to use their payment processing.

That's only true so long as Apple can maintain their App Store monopoly.

Do you use IAPs purely for subscriptions? Do other usecases for IAPs not matter?

Europe needs to chill with the poorly written but well intended regulation before we bifurcate the internet into another group. We already have the open-internet, the Chinese internet, and soon we're going to have the European internet.