To play devil's advocate, the original policy was nearly* unambiguously good for users of Apple devices: same content, same price or cheaper, without having to give your payment information to a 3rd party.
*with the very large caveat that it drove (and would have continued to drive) competitors out of the market decreasing customer choice & ultimately innovation. It's possible (though, I think, unlikely) that they didn't really know the extent to which this would throw developers large and small into a tizzy. Hence a lot of the confusion about SaaS etc.
*with the very large caveat that it drove (and would have continued to drive) competitors out of the market decreasing customer choice & ultimately innovation. It's possible (though, I think, unlikely) that they didn't really know the extent to which this would throw developers large and small into a tizzy. Hence a lot of the confusion about SaaS etc.