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Subscription offerings now available to App Store developers

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Ignácio R. Correia
@igcorreia · Project Manager
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 fr… See more
Karim Mneimneh
@kmnei · Co-founder @99check
I'm confused. What's new about this?
Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
You can see coverage of this announcement on The Verge Apple's new subscription offerings are now available to App Store developers h/t @laurengoode
Veer Obhan
@turboxide_ · High School Computer Science Student
Well now this is gonna suck. All the game developers will start taking subscriptions instead of one time buy. Which will make the prices of everything go astronomically high.
H.Murchison
@hmurchison
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 an… See more