Precisely.

I wouldn't judge anyone who bought it a month ago for asking for a refund, but if you've been using the app since 2019 or something, you got what you paid for, for years.

Does Apple give refunds for four-year old app downloads?

Good question. Anything over 90 days I would see as unreasonable.

So anyone getting a refund is probably a recent purchaser.

I don't know because I don't know the App store rules for these refunds. But if they do allow longer refunds it should have massive repercussions for any App store developers that want to stay in business in the longer term if they are basing their App on someone else's API, even with permission.

It's a $9.99 annual subscription. The fact they are not automatically refunding the part of the year that wasn't provided is offensive.

They can’t. The App Store head never had any mechanism for developers to initiate refunds in any way, let alone partial refunds.

You’re raging against these guys for not doing something that they have no ability to do. Hardly fair.

I think people are talking about refunds of (pro-rated unused portions of) ongoing subscriptions, not refunds for paying a one-time app store fee.

That functionality would have to be created for this particular situation, which I highly doubt Apple can even do at this point (and google likely can't either).

For an industry that makes as much money as it does some people appear to be extremely petty about this, if you could afford the app to begin with you can afford to be gracious about it. If you have any beef it is with Elon Musk, not with Twitterific.

> That functionality would have to be created for this particular situation, which I highly doubt Apple can even do at this point (and google likely can't either).

Wow, really? "Refund remainder of 1-year subscription that started on X date and ended prematurely on Y date" seems like a pretty basic feature of a payments system. The inability to do that says more about Apple (or Google) than it does anyone else.

> If you have any beef it is with Elon Musk, not with Twitterific.

I don't have a beef with either, as I don't use my Twitter account, and didn't purchase Twitterific.

People who bought Twitterific and pay for a subscription don't have an ongoing business relationship with Twitter/Musk, they have one with Twitterific. When the company you pay for a subscription service stops providing that service -- for whatever reason, even reasons outside their control -- the right thing to do is for the company to refund the rest of the subscription.