amiwithani:

I spent the vast majority of my Saturday in terrible, terrible airports on an epic 10-hour trek (nowhere impressive, don’t ask) that began at 4:30 AM. To keep myself from succumbing to the siren song of Combos and an issue of Elle—a path that lands me in a brutal shame spiral which effectively…

ingraham:

Giving Apple more benefit of doubt that they probably deserve on this issue, making purchasing work the same way in all apps would be a lovely thing for usability. In utopian ecommerce, you would buy anything for use with an app from within the app and it would always work almost the same way.

Now…what’s that worth? How large a piece of each purchase is your company willing to give Apple just so that everything can be all tidy like that?

30%?

Probably not.

That’s a really big cut for an abstract benefit. A 30% cut makes sense for apps themselves, but it sure doesn’t for in-app purchases. It’s gouging and the market is definitely not going to bear it.

I have dared to predict. Now let’s sit back and watch the fur fly.