This does of course require you to have Apple devices. However I am much more likely to subscribe to low-dollar subscriptions through Apple, precisely because I know I can cancel with no issues.
Straw man. I’ve signed up for and cancelled the Times online on my phone with no issues many times.
Sure, they make it easy. It's still a straw man to use that to assail American consumer-protection laws, which are largely some of the most robust in the world. (In practice. Not on paper. Plenty of countries have fine models on paper, but they're also easy to ignore.)
They're a phenomenally successful property [1]. And they're targeting the country's political and business elite.
If someone can't figure out how to cancel a subscription, they're probably not in the target market of any text-based product.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/business/media/new-york-t...