Ignácio R. Correia

Apple Subscriptions - Subscription offerings now available to App Store developers

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Karim Mneimneh
I'm confused. What's new about this?
Andreas Pizsa
@bentossell I'm still confused. I've built subscription based iOS apps - billed through the App Store - two years ago. What has changed?
Andreas Pizsa
@bentossell thanks Ben!
gubarev
@andreaspizsa Previously it was available only to a few categories of apps. Now you can make a subscription-based app in any category, be it a game or anything else.
Anthony Lee
@andreaspizsa @bentossell Percentage is way less, they make half as much from using this system, they take 15% (same as most areas government tax) not 30% like other purchases.
Cristi`quad`Glodeanu
@gubarev I have a feeling this is going to suck, if you're a user...
Ignácio R. Correia
Auto-renewable subscriptions give users access to content or services from within your app on an ongoing basis. At the end of each subscription duration, the subscription will automatically renew until a user chooses to cancel it. Auto-renewable subscriptions provide a simple way to offer free trials to users. When users sign up for a subscription with a free trial, their subscription begins immediately but they won’t be billed until the free trial period is over. How long a free trial can be depends on the duration of the subscription offering. For example, a one-month subscription cannot offer a free trial of longer than one month. For more info visit: https://developer.apple.com/app-...
H.Murchison
Subscriptions are ideal when you have a suite of apps or services that are prohibitively expensive. Consumers can rationalize a monthly expense if they gain access to products without a heavy outlay in money. We subscribe to Office 365 and I'm totally cool with it. Subscriptions aren't magic though. Utilities are poor examples and apps that are mature and have little room for continual feature improvements
Hugo MĂĽller-Downing
It'll be interesting to see how app developers set the prices..
Alex Bush
I think this is a game changer for indi developers!