Apple, US developers agree to App Store updates
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Isn't Apple letting "developers...share purchase options with users outside of their iOS app" the whole point of the suit? That's opening up an end around to their 30% cut.
Want to cancel a subscription? Cool, just do it through iPhone’s Settings. No questions asked. There. Done. No “call our customer line/chat to cancel your subscription”. Want to renew it? Same place. Prices are clear and no “small print” non-sense.
Most anything else is user hostile. Why that might be, and why it’s popular to support doing those hostile things to users, makes you go ‘hmmm’.
You’re left with running after the users to close their iOS subscriptions if they cut ties with your service.
It's pretty clear that they're not allowing advertising alternative options in the app itself. You need to have some kind of a secondary communication channel with the user, which basically no app maker will be able to establish.
To further support this interpretation, note that the text is explicitly claiming that this is just a clarification of the policy, not a change in policy.
https://www.axios.com/apple-settles-developer-class-action-c...
"Apple will also set up a $100 million fund for small developers in the U.S., ranging from a minimum of $250 to $30,000 based on the size of the developer. Eligible developers are those who made less than $1 million during each of five years, a group Apple says represents more than 99 percent of developers."
I felt like I was reading minified JavaScript. At least you can prettify JavaScript.
If you've been following Hoeg Law's hours long legal commentary on Apple vs Epic, they believed the most likely resolution would be Apple being forced to remove the "anti-steering rule" which gags developers from talking about alternative payment options. This settlement has that already. It looks like, unless there is a major upset, the Apple vs Epic ruling will be virtually moot (in terms of legal consequences that benefit developers) unless it gets appealed.
> This settlement has that already.
This settlement is not good enough for many developers, since developers are still subject to Apple's anti-steering rule in their iOS apps. Having to establish another communication channel with the customer is an unnecessary hurdle to let the customer know that they could avoid the (up to) 42.8% price hike on their subscription and future app-related purchases if they pay outside the app.