Still waiting...

[lordxorn]

It does seem rather amazing to me that they have no one in Apple in charge of games, which the app store has just recently reached 25 billion downloads. Of course I don't know how many are game, but I am assuming the large majority are going to be games.

The fix to Apple that would please everyone, would be to handle subscriptions the same as in app purchases. I am assuming they charge a percentage of those purchases, so why not treat subscriptions the same?

Sometimes large companies really surprise me, coming from a business major, that they treat games like a hobby and not the multi billion dollar industry it is.

[zarkwizard]

The fix to Apple that would please everyone, would be to handle subscriptions the same as in app purchases. I am assuming they charge a percentage of those purchases, so why not treat subscriptions the same?

Actually in the case of a subscription Apple still takes a cut of 30% off every monthly transaction.

[lordxorn]

Actually in the case of a subscription Apple still takes a cut of 30% off every monthly transaction.

Then why are they worried about your game cutting into their profits?

[ChickenHawk07]

Then why are they worried about your game cutting into their profits?

I don't believe that is the case. From my understanding they said Apple stated they don't allow anything other than periodicals to have recurring monthly subscriptions. However, Pandora Radio has recurring monthly subscriptions and I don't think they fall into the category of "periodicals". So, who knows.