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Smart that developers are quickly updating their apps while Apple is still appealing the decision. Once users get used to the added purchase options and cheaper pricing there's no going back, regardless of what the final ruling is.
This means a lot! It reveals how long developers were waiting for this day to come.
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Making people pay more on Apple devices for the same service is customer friendly?
Try canceling prime. Then try canceling any Apple platform subscription.
Transferring you to a "customer loyalty specialist" when cancelling is also illegal if you refuse.
Don't worship Apple because they're a bit more "consumer friendly" (while cashing in 30% for the privilege!!) when you could have everything be customer friendly for free just by electing honest politicians.
Smart that developers are quickly updating their apps while Apple is still appealing the decision. Once users get used to the added purchase options and cheaper pricing there's no going back, regardless of what the final ruling is.
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Try canceling prime. Then try canceling any Apple platform subscription.
That's also something that's the fault of US lawmakers. In the EU cancelling a service must be as easy and through the same channels as signing up. Hence it's illegal to require that customers mail a hand-posted registered letter only on the second Tuesday of the month. Unless that's also the only way to sign up. Transferring you to a "customer loyalty specialist" when cancelling is also illegal if you refuse. Don't…
If i were an app developer, maker of Skinner box games, or selling virtual products, i would feel differently. But I’m not, and allowing Amazon to extract more margin in exchange for cheapening my experience does nothing to benefit me.
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Google and Amazon had some kind of cold war about them both wanting to control the living room or something. A few years ago they both decided to play nice.
Strangely I still can't buy kindle books from the Amazon app on Android, it still says I have to visit the Website.
- you haven't updated the app in a long time - you're somewhere outside the United States
Is either of those true?
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You can’t in good faith try to convince anyone that cancelling Prime is as easy as canceling a subscription on iOS. After cancelling prime whenever you order something dark patterns are used to try to get you to sign up. One such patten is that orders default to charging for shipping with a message stating that if you sign up for Prime shipping is free. This is even if your order qualifies for free shipping. Another…
They didn't say it was easier. But I would say my experience _cancelling_ isn't worth a 30% price increase for all my services.
I hope can buy audiobooks from the iOS audible app soon.
Perhaps it’s because I have a membership that they’re allowed to bypass the Apple store somehow? I never thought about it until just now.
Smart that developers are quickly updating their apps while Apple is still appealing the decision. Once users get used to the added purchase options and cheaper pricing there's no going back, regardless of what the final ruling is.
You’re right there won’t be any going back. You’re wrong about who is being smart about it. If Apple wins appeal, they’ll happily and quickly reinstate the fees. It’ll be the app developers who then get stuck paying the fees because, as you mentioned, their users will be used to it and there’s no going back.
Might as well ask if unicorns are real. Apple only wins the appeal if they bribe the judges. The only reason they've gotten away with it for so long is the U.S. DOJ was unwilling to enforce antitrust laws after the Microsoft debacle.
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Making people pay more on Apple devices for the same service is customer friendly?
Try canceling prime. Then try canceling any Apple platform subscription.