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xGhostchantx posted...

I wish they would do this shit in Australia. It's bizarre they're being sued there but not here.

I work for a company that has an app. We sell the app directly to people via our website and also through Apple/Google. Apple have made us take down any and all links and messaging that even insinuate there's a subscription you can directly pay us for. We can no longer sell gift vouchers or tell people to sign up through our website through the entire world. Apple don't give vendors access to their systems. If you accidentally made a purchase, you're shit out of luck, call Apple so they can deny you the refund. Even massive, massive companies like Disney don't have access.

Google, on the other hand, allows us to do all of this. I can cancel the Google subscriptions of anyone on GameFAQs because Google give us unrestricted access to the Play console. I can refund. I can cancel. I can do anything you want.

Unless you're Apple. Because Apple says fuck you, that's why.

What's interesting about this is that, in the US, you're more likely to actually get a refund from Apple than you are, say, Epic, which was part of the reason Epic tried to sue in the first place. They wanted to be able to rip people off with their microtransactions without Apple doing anything to prevent it. There are obviously problems to Apple's walled garden, but there were a few perks, too, in that you couldn't really get tricked into buying anything or have to fight to get a refund (Well, as long as you didn't abuse refunding through Apple, anyway.)