As a consumer I trust how Apple payments work and like the fact that everyone was using it on iOS. Now I will need to cut back on apps and do more due diligence to avoid scams and other issues.
Hard to see how this is a win for consumers in addition to developers.
Nothing in this injunction prevents Apple from requiring that if apps offer purchase options they must also offer IAP as an option.
I'm certain that even if the injunction were to go into force, Apple would continue to require that.
Apple could probably even mandate that the other purchase options not be cheaper than IAP pricing by more than apple's 30%, preventing developers from putting absurd prices on the IAP option, and only put real prices on their alternative methods. from the wording of the injunction itself is not even actually clear that apple cannot mandate the IAP and non IAP prices must be the same (the dicta might provide more clarity on if that would be permissible).
Then it becomes up to you if whatever discount is offered for non IAP purchases is worth the extra risks, or if you would rather use IAP.
What do you mean? If purchases are directed to a developers own payment system I don’t have a choice, I cannot force that developer to use Apples payment system can I?
You have the same choice developers had: their way or the highway.
Though, developers would be likely to:
- choose established and trusted payment processors (like PayPal or Stripe) rather than rolling their own solution or a small unknown payment processor, and
The ruling is that Apple cannot forbid linking to other payment methods _in addition to_ IAP, not _instead of_. Apple can still require that IAP must be one of the options.
I don't see anything to suggest apple cannot force apps to offer apple pay as an option. Only that they cannot force apps to make apple pay the only option.
Hard to see how this is a win for consumers in addition to developers.