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Re:Update on StoreKit External Entitlement for dating apps by viro on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @05:27PM (#30861000)
It doesn't help that most devs are actively user-hostile. So yea I would rather trust Apple than some random dev that wants to make it as hard as possible to cancel that 3-day trial he just gave me. then charges $9.99 a week .... I'm looking at you plink.
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Re:Update on StoreKit External Entitlement for dating apps by dspillett on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @05:46PM (#30861210)
> than some random dev that wants to make it as hard as possible to cancel that 3-day trial

That is not a dev thing. At least not a good dev thing. That is a shady business person thing, possibly holding devs to ransom with “I know you don't like it, you can always leave if you dislike it enough and I'll get someone else to implement”.

Of course it is possible to be both a dev and a shady business person, but away from one-man-band entrepreneurs people don't usually have the desire not the time to excel at both.

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Re:Update on StoreKit External Entitlement for dating apps by spideymans on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @05:59PM (#30861340)
This is largely just a semantic argument. There are developers that are individuals (eg, you and me), and developers that are businesses (eg, EA, or Match Group). Developers that are businesses can be (and frequently are) predatory, just as businesses are frequently predatory.

Keep in mind that the overwhelming majority of software that people interact with is coming from developers that are businesses.

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Re:Update on StoreKit External Entitlement for dating apps by wlesieutre on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @07:32PM (#30862132)
But no true developer would make a hard to cancel subscription!
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Re:Update on StoreKit External Entitlement for dating apps by vineyardmike on Thursday March 31, 2022 @03:24AM (#30864709)
Then there are a LOT of fake developers apparently. Maybe I'm fake because I don't recall an ethics statement when I passed my test to be a true developer.

/s

Meanwhile...

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#cod...

> Apps should never prey on users or attempt to rip off customers, trick them into making unwanted purchases, ... or engage in any other manipulative practices within or outside of the app.

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