Subscription based iPhone Apps: Do they exist?
February 11, 2009 by Julian Oscar · Comments
It is well established that Apple takes a 30% cut of revenue generating from the sale of an App. But what happens if the App is free, requiring a website subscription to access it? Does Apple take a cut of that instead?
On one hand, it’s not acceptable for Apple to facilitate the business growth of a website for free. Though on another, a company could easily use the App Store as a marketplace for advertising its subscription based service.
Does anyone have an example of an App that requires a subscription to access it? Even Netflix doesn’t have an App at this point, why is that?
