{"id":32937,"date":"2021-06-25T21:03:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T01:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32937"},"modified":"2021-06-25T22:26:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T02:26:45","slug":"ring-and-the-app-store-strategy-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/25\/ring-and-the-app-store-strategy-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring and the App Store Strategy Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/backlon\/status\/1401204038608199680\">Dieter Bohn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/backlon\/status\/1401204038608199680\">\n<p>Here is an amazing web page that exists because of and is entirely designed to deal with Apple&rsquo;s App Store rules. It&rsquo;s the page the Ring iPhone app takes you to when your subscription to view old footage has expired. Click it, what do you notice?<\/p>\n<p>There are no subscribe buttons. There are no subscribe links.<\/p>\n<p>Apple doesn&rsquo;t allow apps to indicate to users that there may be ways to pay for things outside the Apple Payment system. Even links to web pages that apps host themselves are apparently reviewed<\/p>\n<p>In fact, there are no links whatsoever that will take you directly to subscription options or even Ring&rsquo;s homepage, nor is there any text on the page even describing how to do it. The only interactions are watching a video or talking to a chatbot.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the chat bot requires a few extra interactions before you get to a subscribe page.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The user experience is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/backlon\/status\/1401204099618508802\">better<\/a> on Android.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2019\/01\/netflix_itunes_billing\">Netflix<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dieter Bohn: Here is an amazing web page that exists because of and is entirely designed to deal with Apple&rsquo;s App Store rules. It&rsquo;s the page the Ring iPhone app takes you to when your subscription to view old footage has expired. Click it, what do you notice? There are no subscribe buttons. There are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-06-26T01:03:18Z","apple_news_api_id":"5e8d276d-5a6f-400f-970b-45594c1a7375","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-06-26T02:26:49Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AXo0nbVpvQA-XC0VZTBpzdQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,31,1837,26,1772,158],"class_list":["post-32937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-iosapp","tag-ring","tag-strategytax"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32951,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32937\/revisions\/32951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}