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Re: WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

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Post by georgespencer »

gsich wrote: post #284
georgespencer wrote: post #180

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This has nothing to do with a company's ability to price differently on other platforms or their website, and there is significant evidence that shows apps allowed onto the app store with more expensive purchase price, subscription price, and IAP price.

But it is. Take Spotify. You can't pay for that in the app. If they could charge more, they would. But they aren't allowed, so they discontinued IAP alltogether.

Spotify did charge more, for years, in iOS. Epic charged more for their coins in iOS than elsewhere, too. Can you point to a specific policy change or news article which supports your argument? You're saying "could" and "would" but the actual evidence is that they did.

Re: WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

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Post by ffpip »

literallycancer wrote: post #326
ffpip wrote: post #316

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I use both. Adblock doesnt stop play store ads. HTTPS. Play store is needed for buying apps. Can't do that from aurora store without a risk of your Googz Account getting banned.

What kind of play store ads? I have AdAway and don't get any ads. It needs root though. You could buy apps from a desktop browser and just configure the account details in Aurora for the paid apps? I haven't heard of anyone getting banned.

I too use Adaway with custom lists. However you can't block playstore ads via DNS blocking/Hosts method. Because you need to install your own certificates to read HTTPS traffic on android (which is what AdGuard does, very risky)

The aurora dev's account gets frequently banned. Look into is telegram group.

Re: WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

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Post by gsich »

georgespencer wrote: post #331
gsich wrote: post #284

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But it is. Take Spotify. You can't pay for that in the app. If they could charge more, they would. But they aren't allowed, so they discontinued IAP alltogether.

Spotify did charge more, for years, in iOS. Epic charged more for their coins in iOS than elsewhere, too. Can you point to a specific policy change or news article which supports your argument? You're saying "could" and "would" but the actual evidence is that they did .

And now they don't anymore.

Already linked it: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines

Re: WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

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Post by Razengan »

nguyenkien wrote: post #251
Razengan wrote: post #244

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The only operating that still costs money and still spams its users with third-party ads. In any case, you can publish for macOS without paying Apple anything too, you just have to convince your users to bypass Gatekeeper for your app.

Apple also spam users with ads. And yes they devices is far more expensive

There are no ads in any Apple OS.

Re: WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

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Post by georgespencer »

gsich wrote: post #333
georgespencer wrote: post #331

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spotify did charge more, for years, in iOS. Epic charged more for their coins in iOS than elsewhere, too. Can you point to a specific policy change or news article which supports your argument? You're saying "could" and "would" but the actual evidence is that they did .

And now they don't anymore. Already linked it: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines

I linked this and have read it. Where exactly does it preclude apps from charging differential pricing on subscriptions?

Re: WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

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Post by nguyenkien »

Razengan wrote: post #306
nguyenkien wrote: post #251

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Apple also spam users with ads. And yes they devices is far more expensive

Apple does not put ads on any of their operating systems.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/18/18145289/apple-iphone-io...

Re: WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

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Post by mantas »

ac29 wrote: post #198
bottled_poe wrote: post #179

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It looks like you may be out of touch with the global market

There are substantial portions of the world where median income per household is 10000USD or less: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

And software developers make few times the median in such places.

Source: am developer in a country you describe

Re: WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

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Post by mantas »

dkersten wrote: post #233
ac29 wrote: post #198

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There are substantial portions of the world where median income per household is 10000USD or less: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

Do people who live there own an iphone or a macbook? If not, how are they developing for those devices?

That's where hackintoshes come in. Technically development doesn't require a physical device too. Of course, UX is likely to be kinda poor when working in simulator only. But that's how it goes.

Re: WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

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Post by NavinF »

wolco wrote: post #132
NavinF wrote: post #104

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2.9% is the highest you'll pay to accept cards unless you're in a high risk category. And even cheaper with volume Fraud happens with any payment provider including Apple. You don't have to pay extra for shopping cart infrastructure if you use Stripe or similar

That's stripe rate. You will pay higher elsewhere.

Only if you choose a provider that charges above market rate :)

IIRC, PayPal has offered 2.9% for over a decade

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