{"id":7529,"date":"2018-08-14T22:52:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T22:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7529"},"modified":"2018-08-14T22:52:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T22:52:50","slug":"apple-is-privately-pushing-paid-app-developers-to-move-to-subscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/08\/14\/apple-is-privately-pushing-paid-app-developers-to-move-to-subscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Is Privately Pushing Paid App Developers to Move to Subscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1984,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.thisisinsider.com\\\/apple-secret-meeting-developers-new-york-subscriptions-app-store-2018-7&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20180815041156\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.thisisinsider.com\\\/apple-secret-meeting-developers-new-york-subscriptions-app-store-2018-7&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 22:18:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-23 03:19:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-30 11:36:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-05 06:49:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-24 01:55:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 01:09:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 05:15:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 05:15:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisinsider.com\/apple-secret-meeting-developers-new-york-subscriptions-app-store-2018-7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Is Privately Pushing Paid App Developers to Move to Subscriptions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Interesting story by Kif Leswing for Business Insider, regarding a private meeting Apple held with indie developers in New York last year:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The new way Apple wanted to promote: Instead of users paying for apps once, they\u2019d pay on a regular basis, putting money into developer coffers on a regular schedule. Apple would still get a 30% cut of the subscription\u2019s cost, but if a customer continued to subscribe after a year, Apple\u2019s cut would go down to 15%.<\/p>\n<p>At the meeting, Apple underscored that the app model was changing. The meeting touched on topics including launching, customer acquisition, testing and marketing, engagement, retention, monetization, and paid search ads.<\/p>\n<p>An Apple representative said at the meeting that paid apps represent 15% of total app sales and is on the decline, according to a person who was there who did not want to be identified to maintain their relationship with Apple.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Up front paid apps are going the way of the dodo. Whether you think that\u2019s good or bad, it doesn\u2019t matter. That\u2019s where things are going.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The only recurring charges from Apple to me is my 2 Terabyte iCloud drive that renews everything for I think $9.99. Then again, i still feel more and more strongly about going pure-iOS next update. Only web-applications with no third party apps. Apple\u2019s apps are all mature enough now and they\u2019re the most careful with my data.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple Is Privately Pushing Paid App Developers to Move to Subscriptions: Interesting story by Kif Leswing for Business&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-08-14T22:53:00Z","apple_news_api_id":"52f9e73a-9477-4957-9003-7b687b1f6263","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-08-14T22:53:04Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AUvnnOpR3SVeQA3toex9iYw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Xr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8316,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2020\/09\/09\/technology-insanely-brief-remarks-on-apple-v-epic\/","url_meta":{"origin":7529,"position":0},"title":"Technology: Insanely Brief Remarks on Apple v. 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