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Title: App Store subscriptions don't solve problems for most developers Post by: HCK on June 13, 2016, 04:05:14 pm App Store subscriptions don't solve problems for most developers
<article> <section class="page"> <p><strong>Update:</strong> This article has been updated to reflect clarification from Apple that apps approved to use subscriptions can require a subscription to use the app at all.</p><p> While any app has the potential to offer subscriptions under Apple’s new guidelines, most apps can’t take real advantage.</p><p> Apple’s news that any iOS app can offer subscriptions (http://www.macworld.com/article/3081384/ios/apple-svp-phil-schiller-huge-ios-app-store-changes-are-coming-this-fall.html) as an in-app purchase, not just news and streaming media apps, offers less than it seems at first glance—unless there’s more to come at WWDC. Apple’s Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing, indicated to The Verge (http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/8/11880730/apple-app-store-subscription-update-phil-schiller-interview) that this was it for now.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3081367/ios/app-store-subscriptions-dont-solve-problems-for-most-developers.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: App Store subscriptions don't solve problems for most developers (http://www.macworld.com/article/3081367/ios/app-store-subscriptions-dont-solve-problems-for-most-developers.html#tk.rss_all) |