Marco ArmentJan 19, 2023

Cannot reiterate this enough:

PLEASE don’t request refunds from Apple for any unused time on your Twitterrific or Tweetbot subscriptions.

It could literally bankrupt small shops like these.

https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/twitterrific-end-of-an-era/

Twitterrific: End of an Era • The Breakroom

Twitterrific has been discontinued. A sentence that none of us wanted to write, but have long felt would need to be written someday. We didn’t expect to be writing it so soon, though, and certainly not without having had time to notify you that it was coming. We are sorry to say that the app’s […]

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Show threadRadleyJan 19, 2023

@marcoarment "PLEASE don’t request refunds from Apple for any unused time on your Twitterrific or Tweetbot subscriptions."

[Update: I’m pretty sure my reply below is wrong. I recall reading about it, but can’t find my source nor anything to confirm it.]

Here’s why: Apple will refund the full amount of the app and keep their 30% service fee. For example, if you paid $10, Apple will take $10 from the developer, even though Apple only paid $7 to the dev.

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@marcoarment @radley Do folks have experience with this? Based on this thread, it sounds like even though Apple retains the right to charge the service fee back to the developer they don’t always do so:
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/105454
Does Apple retain the commission f… | Apple Developer Forums

Jan 20, 2023 at 9:54amWeb
Show threadRadleyJan 23, 2023

@b_cavello

Thanks!