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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Apple *is* the middle man. They have a store in which they sell apps for their products. In exchange for offering this service, they get paid. That is not really a radical idea.
But publishers can avoid all of this by simply making the app free for everyone, or charging everyone for it.
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I presume the publishers already pay Apple for hosting their app. And that's not a problem. The problem is that Apple is saying the publisher can't sell an online subscription, but only tell Apple to sell that online subscription.
And from what I read, publishers can't offer the app themselves, outside the appstore. At least, not if they want their customers to keep their warranty on their iphone, ipad or other iapple device that can run apps. So, their only choice is to drop the app and make their site iapple device friendly.