[Hokusai]

> I want ALL my subscriptions to go through Apple Pay and App store

What about defining a standard subscription protocol that allows any company to offer subscription management, and allow consumers to change their subscription manager if they are not happy?

Putting all your eggs in one nest because you currently like it is a very risky gamble.

Banking has worked with standards for decades that allow interoperability and competition.

> But to be honest at the end of the day it can't be Apple's problem.

That's why the trust in one company should be very limited. As a non USA consumer, I will prefer some one else managing my data.

[chaostheory]

You have a point, but that standard protocol doesn’t exist yet to even be implemented. Even then, is it a strict standard that everyone will follow to a T, or is it one where every company will have their own special interpretation?

Unfortunately, people need something that works right now.

[Closi]

It has to start at some point!

See Open Banking, that's taken many years to implement but we are starting to reap the rewards.

[corobo]

What are the rewards with open banking? I'm not opposed to it by any means but so far all I've seen is my Monzo account showing my Nationwide balance

Is there a "ahhhh this is what it's for" moment out there yet?

[Gravityloss]

I understand similar fragmentation exists in payments for electric car charging. You need lots of cards, accounts, qr codes, sms and calls. This makes all the technological progress with billions poured into it not very useful, if you can't trust that you can charge on a road trip.

Someone could make a single app that would handle all that for you.

[zamalek]

It's called Plugshare and it works with most networks, and probably only works on Android (due to Apple's payment restrictions).

[theshrike79]

YMMV.

I can't pay on any of the charging points I use, not on iOS or Android.

Even if I could, it'd most likely use the roaming price of $FUCKTON, so no thanks.

[zamalek]

Yeah, I typically use Electrify America (range anxiety has been replaced by "is the charger broken anxiety" and EA is hella reliable), and they don't support Plugshare. Apparently they are working on account identification through the charging cable, if that catches on this mess could really be a thing of the past. I'm going off-topic, though.

[joosters]

...and now we have one more incompatible standard (insert obligatory XKCD link here)