Re: Mac App Store paid upgrades and app settings
Re: Mac App Store paid upgrades and app settings
- Subject: Re: Mac App Store paid upgrades and app settings
- From: Saagar Jha <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 14:04:44 -0700
Saagar Jha
> On Aug 13, 2018, at 13:40, Martin Wierschin <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> So does this mean that the new Mac App Store will allow for upgrade payments
>> or recurring payments?
>
> You never know. It’s always possible there are MAS enhancements coming to
> help facilitate paid updates. Or maybe more permissible guidelines from Apple
> regarding subscriptions. But I won’t be holding my breath.
>
> There’s probably ugly workarounds you can do using in-app purchases, to
> transform a purchased app into a new version via an IAP, but that would be
> quite contrived and burdensome to implement. Developers are already using
> IAPs for similar purposes, like free limited-time demos, but that's also not
> exactly what I’d call a perfect solution for these kinds of needs.
>
> Well, I was hoping I had missed some nice automatic way to import a sandbox
> container from a prior version of my app, but I suppose there isn’t. I’ll
> probably just have to bother the user with an alert and folder selection
> dialog.
Perhaps you could put both apps in an app group, so they get access to the same
sandbox container?
>
> ~Martin Wierschin
>
>
>> On Aug 13, 2018, at 1:08 PM, Richard Charles <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Aug 13, 2018, at 10:17 AM, Martin Wierschin <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> The new version is to be a paid upgrade, which I know the MAS doesn't
>>> really support.
>>
>> It has been reported that Microsoft Office 365 and Adobe Lightroom are
>> coming to the new Mac App Store. Those apps surely are not single time
>> payment apps. So does this mean that the new Mac App Store will allow for
>> upgrade payments or recurring payments? Perhaps Apple, Microsoft and Adobe
>> know the answer to that question but are not telling anyone.
>>
>> --Richard Charles
>>
>
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