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by navs 5005 days ago
I'd love to see this as a webapp. I'm one of those folks that just doesn't use apps or even sign in to my apple account. I'm sure more of my kind exist.

EDIT: Whoops I see this has paid in-app purchases. I wonder if there's something out there that can offer as seamless an experience as iTunes in-app purchases for webapps.

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Yeah, it's pretty depressing when the only reason a magazine is iOS only is because it uses Apple payments.

I guess that was Apple's end goal, but it's just a sad state of affairs. And even if they wanted to use some other option... Apple would block it on iOS.

Have you looked at the digital goods API for Google Wallet?

Docs: https://developers.google.com/in-app-payments/

Demos: https://developers.google.com/in-app-payments/docs/samples

Someone should build a service on top of Stripe to do this.
Stripe for payment, Persona for auth.