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If you allow people to get around the in-app purchase they will and the whole platform will suffer.


How so?


Almost all top-grossing apps nowadays are IAP games. I'd say these are the natural successors of subscription scams on J2ME dumbphones. If you'd allow these companies to bill you through their website, you could probably forget about ever cancelling that subscription again.


Not necessarily so. Other payment systems like Paypal can come in and be the gatekeeper.


PayPal, there's the company we should hand the keys to the kingdom to.




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