Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations
&gt; Open up alternate payment mechanisms… without the Apple tax<p>I don&#x27;t agree with this, as a developer and a consumer. As a consumer it is extremely nice that I don&#x27;t have to deal with all sorts of exotic and different payment gateways. Some accept Amex, some don&#x27;t. Some try to store my card without my consent, some don&#x27;t. Some make it really obvious that not being charged during a trial period some don&#x27;t. Some payment gateways are buggy, slow and frustrating and some are really good. As a consumer I bloody hate that and I love iOS and Apple for the fact that I can securely put payment methods behind Apple Pay and then know that I can do any in-app purchases via an already established and well working gateway. No faffing about with some other shite.<p>From a developer perspective I don&#x27;t see why anyone should use the AppStore as a distribution channel to a huge market and completely circumvent Apple&#x27;s cut when clearly they are offering a lot of value by making this possible in the first place?<p>For example, my VPN I can either buy a license by going to their website and go through a 5 minute checkout process or I can do a 5 second checkout via the iOS app. The first one goes 100% to the VPN developers, the second also means that a cut goes to Apple. Sounds fair to me, because I literally purchased a VPN in a moment where I didn&#x27;t have the time of going to a website. I was abroad, I was on a mobile and I had limited time to get quickly a subscription so I could use the VPN and I would have not bought it if it wasn&#x27;t for the ease and speed which the app allowed me to do. This was only the case because Apple does such a diligent job in keeping it so sleek. Without Apple Pay I would have not bought that license and they would have not lost 30% of the sale, but effectively 100%.