Apple Opens the Door to Game Subscriptions

Publishers have seen some success with magazine and newspaper subscriptions on iOS through Newstand. Now game developers want to get in on the subscription based model. It's not something many developers will want to do, but for some, it works. Big Fish Games will be the first to offer the service, making all their games available for $4.99 per month.

Games will be streamed to users, meaning they won't be on your iOS device. Your iPad or iPhone will simply serve as a controller, and the video will be streamed from the games. How well this works has yet to be seen, but it's similar to the way OnLive offers streamed games for a subscription.

Expect more streamed games in the near future with iOS game subscriptions. Whether or not customers will jump to this as easily as they did magazine subscriptions will be a question for many developers in the future.
via Gizmodo

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Apple improved the mechanism of purchase of applications

The Apple Corp. entered a paid subscription into App Store.

App Store 3.0

Now owners of portable devices on iOS platform can issue the durable subscription to a content. It's a question first of all of periodicals, including newspapers and logs, like The Daily.

Besides periodicals, also the urgent subscription can be issued for the applications offering access to music, video, to e-books and other digital content. Thus users of devices can independently select duration of a subscription from offered by developers of application of options and to immediately pay from the device screen.

Besides it, Apple will take 30% traditional tax for developers of applications. In the event that application purchase will be carried out on a website of the web developer, the Apple will not take tax.

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