Recently, Apple started permitting “reader” applications to give external links to clients so they can sign in and pay for a subscription from outside the App Store. Presently Netflix is carrying out a choice in its iOS application that takes clients to its website to complete a new Netflix subscription.
The Netflix application currently involves the new iOS API for reader applications that takes the client to an external website prior to making a subscription. It’s dubious when precisely Netflix started carrying out this choice to iPhone and iPad clients, however in view of reports, the rollout now is by all accounts around the world.
At the point when you tap the subscribe button, that’s what a message says “you’re about to leave the app and go to an external website.” The application likewise takes note of that the transaction will never again be Apple’s responsibility and that all subscription management ought to be finished under Netflix’s platform.
Tapping the Continue button takes you to the Netflix website where you can enter your personal data, pick a payment method, and buy into a Netflix plan. This, obviously, permits Netflix not to pay the 30% commission for every subscription made within iOS applications, which is diminished to 15% for repeating subscriptions after one year.
It’s quite important that Apple considers reading applications to be those that offer digital content like magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, or video as the main functionality of the application.
Netflix had previously dumped in-app subscriptions
Regardless of this update, Netflix had dumped in-app subscriptions long ago. Back in 2018, the organization released an update to its iOS application that eliminated the choice to allow clients to buy into Netflix directly from its official iPhone and iPad application. Obviously, Apple attempted to prevent Netflix from diverting iOS clients to subscribe to a Netflix plan using Safari.
Because of late antitrust investigations, Apple has at long last permitted a few kinds of applications to offer elective subscription techniques beyond the App Store without paying a commission to the organization. All the more recently, Apple has additionally been compelled to permit App Store applications to give third-party payment techniques in certain nations like the Netherlands and South Korea.