I don’t really understand the point you’re trying to get at but your analogy doesn’t really work here because a new chocolate bar would be a new product. Not a different way of buying the same product.

Adding a new option but keeping the old one is not some strategy to counter people criticising them removing the old option.

Every choice a company does is a strategy in some way, for some reason, which has been calculated to make them more money than another choice. This is how 99% of businesses work, and Apple as well.

You have any email I could reach out to you on once Apple finally removes the purchase ability for this, and only lets people subscribe?

> You have any email I could reach out to you on once Apple finally removes the purchase ability for this, and only lets people subscribe?

If they do this, then still no one will ever have to say something as silly as "they only kept the other option so people won't complain about them removing the other option".

They're running a conspiracy to trick people into not shutting them down by offering two ways to pay, the devious foxes.