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The App Store should be encouraged so long as it is fair and equitable. Having Apple as my firewall to check software before its sold / given to me, gives me piece of mind that its safe to install and use. Without that, its a risk.

chasm said:

fishwhisperer said:

Maybe costly but not difficult. You can cancel any time very quickly and in a straightforward process. I cancelled my subscription a month before it ended without a hassle. I think the first two options, monthly, and yearly paid monthly, are fair. For the yearly paid monthly I think it is fair to give back the discount. The annual subscription paid upfront should have the same 50% penalty. I don't see why it should be any different than the yearly subscription paid monthly.

I’m glad Adobe’s policies work for you, but the point is that every subscription NOT handled through the App Store has or may have totally different ways of cancelling or modifying subscriptions designed to discourage you from doing so. This is a burden for consumers.

The industry should adopt Apple’s easy, uniform standard for digital sub modifications/cancellations. As far as I can tell, it is by far the simplest and most consistent way to manage digital subscriptions.

Agree and this is why I like using Apple App Store. Simply, easy and you know the software has been checked.

About time too. Adobe are gougers. The cost of their buggy software is astonishingly greedy. I stopped using Adobe Acrobat Pro as the price just cilmbed and climbed. I had 25 licenses but could not justify it when I was getting the whole Microsoft office suite and one drive for less than an adobe acrobat license that was buggy. Trying to cancel it was a merry go around and it felt a cheap and nasty company.

Now I try and avoid adobe products at every possibility. Greed pure and simple. If they sold the licenses for a modest monthly fee, fine but they are gougers for software that is very average.

9secondkox2 said:

Yikes. I definitely don’t want nfc opened up. I only trust apple with the money I soend with my phone. The eh ruins everything. 

I couldn't agree more. 

avon b7 said:

Apple has a de-facto monopoly over NFC based payments, forcing other banks out of a business and hardware they can use openly on other phones.

I'm not surprised Apple potentially sees this as restricting competition because that is what it is.

It is not only the payment side of things either. Users of public transport systems in places like Barcelona are unable to use the system through the native app because iPhones restrict access to the necessary hardware. That is supposedly being negotiated but the authorities say access (which requires negotiation with Apple) could be over a year away. 

Force banks out of business? Are you serious. Banks are notorious at their own dirty tricks and price gouging, especially in Australia. This was not about free trade this was all about protecting their profits. Period. Not about consumers, not about security, it was all about their bottomline. Banks stinks.