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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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