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"Indie app publishers are screwed." - that was one of the first things I thought about.

I didn’t understand this. If an indie developer provides an app a user pays for why should the UX choice of the user matter?

Because these days a lot of the money a developer makes isn’t made up-front, it’s made through interactions in the app. Siri isn’t going to read you the ads in the apps it’s using behind the scenes.

Maybe this will cause a shift back towards up-front pricing, which personally I would welcome.

That is the only thing I could come up with up but I thought it was to cynical.

The problem is that Indie is not the right description of those developers. Those developers come in all shapes and sizes.

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