Acorn Drops IAP Trial
For the App Store version of Acorn, I’ve also removed the option to “purchase” a free trial for $0 via in app purchases. You can still grab the free trial off our website, and if you like it you can purchase Acorn directly from us or from the App Store.
IAPs have a lot of issues on the Mac, and provided a really crappy experience just to enable free trials. Incomplete store APIs (such as receipt refreshing), buggy / hung app store background processes (we were having to tell people to restart their computers if the purchases weren’t working), 403 App Store errors when trying to purchase the trial, dialog boxes saying “Are you sure you want to spend $0?” which scared people away, and of course emails from people assuming that I was going to try and charge them after the trial was up and they wanted to cancel their “subscription”.
Previously: App Store Trials: No More Free IAPs?.
