After visiting the iPhone dev conf in San Jose, I left more questions about buying an In-App than when I started. Here is what interests me:
You can set the purchase as a “subscription” type. cool. But it doesn't talk about how the subscription is served - how does an apple know to charge once a month? once a week? once every six months? etc. I was told that the apple doesn’t actually do this - only this is called the type of subscription. The developer has to keep track of the subscriptions and then send them to the apple when they are put off, but this leads to another question - why do you have a type of subscription? If I keep an eye on the days before the due date, send it to the apple as a charge for the application - what's the difference in just making separate payments on a regular basis?
It seems to me that the apple does nothing on subscriptions - only the type announces - all the work is done by the developer - in this case, why call it a subscription?
Can someone point me to some code that processes the subscription to the application and what they had to do to set this up for recurring payments? I would be very grateful ....
a lot thanx.
world. JOE ...
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