Whats amusing is they charge the same 30% tax to every developer on Google Play/Android store but for Youtube Red since its their own property, they can give themselves the 30%.
You have the choice, as a developer, to not use the IAP functionality of the Play store. You can do your own credit card processing and order/subscription management.
Apple forbids this. You are required to use their IAP features and pay them their 30%.
As I've mentioned elsewhere in this thread, see the difference between the Kindle app on iOS and the Kindle app on Android. On iOS, no store. On Android, full store.
No, this is incorrect. Google requires that you use their payment system (which takes 30%) [1]:
> In-store purchases: Developers charging for apps and downloads from Google Play must use Google Play’s payment system.
> In-app purchases: Developers offering products within a game downloaded from Google Play or providing access to game content must use Google Play In-app Billing as the method of payment.
> Developers offering products within another category of app downloaded from Google Play must use Google Play In-app Billing as the method of payment
The only exception they allow is if you're selling physical goods (which is the same as Apple's policy).
What I particularly love is that you didn't actually read the rest of the bullets in the ToS, and you completely ignored my citation of the Kindle app which I intentionally provided as an existence proof.
It's odd that you cut&pasted so many references to IAP, but totally missed the 2nd clause (immediately following the one about physical goods): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10429681
