Comment by willtemperley
10 hours ago
You're perfectly entitled to distribute a macOS app with your own paywall, the same as ever. Nothing has changed from that perspective.
Rent-seeking on SaaS platforms is far worse I think, e.g. $30 per month for 10GB of data in a recent offering I was looking at, and who knows where the data are. Some datacenter in a foreign land with a mad king probably.
> You're perfectly entitled to distribute a macOS app with your own paywall
Are you sure the ToS allows that? Given the "anti-steering" rules? Can you point me to an example that isn't by a megacorp?
> $30 per month for 10GB of data in a recent offering I was looking at, and who knows where the data are
That's worse pricing than my mobile contract!
Scroll to the bottom:
https://developer.apple.com/macos/distribution/
Isn't the "outside the app store" bit entirely new, and forced on them by the EU?
Doesn't change that if you distribute inside the app store, the app store rules ban you from any kind of external payment system.
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