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Originally Posted by stonetools
First, I'm glad that you understand that the 30 per cent model applies solely to subscriptions. Apple has said NOTHING definitive about its policy regarding one off purchases like ebooks. For all we know, they may leave things exactly as they are now, although I doubt this. What we have gotten is many pages of fulminations about what people THINK that Apple may do.
As to subscriptions, my understanding isthat Apple wants that subscription services offer an inapp purchase OPTION in addition to its other subscription options. For the consumer, well he can sign up for a subscription on the web and consume on his I device, if he wants to. Of course, Apple hopes that the consumer will use the inapp option but if you have some obsession with never using the in app option, they you can just subscribe and renew on the web. And the merchant gets to keep 100 per cent of all the money that comes through non inapp subscriptions.
To be honest, I don't see the big deal with the policy AS ANNOUNCED. People have getting themselves in a lather over speculations born from FUD. I say let's wait and see,
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Apple has only talked openly about subscriptions, but that's not what the guidelines say.
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1) May only use IAP to sell content and services from within the app (Section 11.2)
2) Must not direct users to commerce or transactions outside the IAP system (Section 11.14)
3) Must price IAP and subscription content the same as, or lower than, equivalent content offered outside the app (Section 11.13)
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Those guidelines as written make it clear that the policy is not limited to subscription content, regardless of what's been announced.