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Does Apple really deserves 30% cut from IAP?

I've been working on implementing Auto Renewing Subscriptions in iOS and it's been a real pain:

  • Very unclear documentation
  • Flaky webhooks implementation—very limited webhooks, confusing and you can only add one URL, so if you use different URLs for different env you will have to proxy the request yourself.
  • You have to poll Apple Servers to check if a subscription wasn't renewed.
  • You need ugly hacks if you need to support complex subscription cases, e.g. If you have a SAAS and accounts need a subscription per project or per team member, etc.

Do they really deserve to take a 30% cut for such a bad system?

on June 16, 2020