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Shows you how little he knows about his own business. Since the Expedia app sells physical goods/services it can use it’s own payments methods and pay nothing other than the $99/year developer fee to Apple.

What would happen if the hotels on Expedia put messages on their pages that said call us directly and save 30%.

I’ll explain why this happens for most streaming services. Product leadership (design, strategy, engineering) think they can do “better” then Apple not understanding what makes a tvOS app “feel” at home on the platform. The main reason stated is “consistency”. They have the false narrative that users want the app to work/look the same no matter what platform they use Apple TV, Fire TV, Android TV. Even though most AppleTV users aren’t going to be switching to a FireTV. Take a look at Disney+ or Netflix on AppleTV. Disney doesn’t use the standard player so things just don’t work the same, Netflix design to so claustrophobic with having only one row of content visible at a time.

Apple has a very opinionated voice on how things should work and look. Apple users tend to agree with Apple, that is why they buy into their ecosystem. When developers don’t do it the Apple way it stands out. It is the same thing on the Mac, dedicated Apple users can spot a bad cross platform app from a mile away.