They used to do that, and that is ok. But you can't link them to an external site to pay and sign up.
But now they just bit the bullet and give up a portion of their revenue to Apple and Google. Although I believe 30% is only for the first year. It goes down after that.
The weird thing is why would Apple get any of the revenue. I don't think microsoft gets any from people that watch netflix in their browser, nor google if people watch it in chrome.
In theory either could interfere with your interaction with netflix and demand money to allow it through. Google could start a whitelist of good sites and demand revenue sharing to be allowed on the list but people would go ballistic and firefox would have a lot more users.
I really don't see how apples arrangement is any more acceptable.
They used to do that, and that is ok. But you can't link them to an external site to pay and sign up.
But now they just bit the bullet and give up a portion of their revenue to Apple and Google. Although I believe 30% is only for the first year. It goes down after that.
I suspect a big player like Netflix can negotiate the revenue split with Apple. Nothing we mere mortals can.
The weird thing is why would Apple get any of the revenue. I don't think microsoft gets any from people that watch netflix in their browser, nor google if people watch it in chrome.
In theory either could interfere with your interaction with netflix and demand money to allow it through. Google could start a whitelist of good sites and demand revenue sharing to be allowed on the list but people would go ballistic and firefox would have a lot more users.
I really don't see how apples arrangement is any more acceptable.
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I don't think they can. Netflix needs Apple more than Apple needs Netflix.
But, if you have existing customers and their account has lapsed and must be paid to re-enable service your app can link to a web-page payment form
I'd imagine there's some companies that even Apple can't bully.