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> With many subscription services it is very difficult to cancel.

You gave one example. One is not many.

It's not true of Disney and Hulu, so the OP's claim "Which is probably precisely why Disney and Hulu don't want you to go through Apple" was false.

The bottom line is that it's not worth it to these companies for Apple to take 30% of their revenue just to be a payment processor.

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Obviously you did not understand what I wrote. I clearly stated that sometimes it is as easy to cancel a service outside of using Apple as it is with using Apple. I followed up with a rhetorical question: “Why take the risk?”

I'm not convinced that it is a risk. You also clearly stated, "With many subscription services it is very difficult to cancel", yet even your lone example has been disputed.

In any case, which company you choose to pay is up to you. If you want to go with Apple, fine. I don't care either way. My dispute was with the OP's false insinuation, "Which is probably precisely why Disney and Hulu don't want you to go through Apple."

Canceling subscriptions is so difficult to do the the U.S. that a federal agency has announced new regulations designed to make it easy.

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