Hey all,
After attending an iPhone dev conf in San Jose - I left with more questions about In-App purchasing than when I started. Here's what I was wondering:
You can set a purchase as a type "subscription". cool. But, it doesn't say anywhere about how the subscription is serviced - how does apple know to charge once a month? once a week? one every six months? etc. I was told that apple doesn't really do that - only that it calls it a type of subscription. That the developer must be the one to monitor the subscriptions and then submit them to apple when they are due up - but this leads to another question - then why have the subscription type? If I monitor the days until it's due, then submit it to apple as an application charge - what's the difference in merely making separate charges on a regular basis?
it seems to me, apple is doing nothing on the subscriptions - only declaring the type - all the work is done by the developer - in which case, why call it a subscription?
Can someone point me to some code that handles a subscription for an app - and what they had to do to set this up for recurring payments? Would greatly appreciate it....
many thanx.
peace. JOe...