Apple Confirms Disney Is Part of a Subscription-Related ‘Pilot’ ⇥ techcrunch.com

Sarah Perez, of TechCrunch, followed up on that weird Disney Plus subscription behaviour:

An Apple spokesperson did not dispute the accuracy of the developers’ claims we presented and said this was part of a pilot test.

“We are piloting a new commerce feature we plan to launch very soon. The pilot includes developers across various app categories, organization sizes and regions to help test an upcoming enhancement that we believe will be great for both developers and users, and we’ll have more details to share in the coming weeks,” the spokesperson said.

I guess we know one of this year’s WWDC announcements.

On its face, giving developers the ability to raise prices without explicit user confirmation seems extremely risky. Apple has faced many problems with developers abusing app subscriptions in the past. I am obviously curious about what systems will be in place to prevent even worse behaviour.