I think most other companies do that with the expectation that you will get addicted to the product during the trial period and uncancel the subscription. I have no idea why apple does that. But I hv always felt that they are losing out on eventual subscribers.

> I have no idea why apple does that

It might keep you from canceling right now.

When you know you can continue accessing the service until the end of the trial period, what’s the incentive to not cancel right now?

Whether this strategy is a net gain overall to Apple, who knows.

My issue is mainly that they treat their own subscriptions different to the third party ones. Doesn’t feel very fair competition to me

I agree with you completely.

This is one of the bad faith things that apple does that really rubs me the wrong way.

The other one is forcing me to use apple maps, particularly when I already uninstalled it. Making it harder to click addresses so they can be copied into google is also really poor behavior.

I am much less of a trust buster hawk than most, but I do wish the anti-monopoly regulators would come down hard on those two things.

Rules for thee, but not for me is not conducive to long term health...

I DO believe some of their policies could be better, I agree. I’ve never used such a service where I’d end up sore or the trial ends immediately.

There’s truth to the fact this is not right but I have no way of complaining.

The App Store does work well. For a lot of other services, I’ve been delighhtEd in the way they work- and the transparencyy is superbb.!