Concluding a long saga, Netflix announced that it has begun globally removing users’ access to paying for the discounted plan available through Apple’s iTunes. According to The Verge, for which the company confirmed the information, subscribers who used this method to subscribe to their content will now have to pay the monthly price directly in streaming, using a credit or debit card, which means paying more .
The movement to remove the payment method via iTunes has been underway since 2018, when tests were discovered by the TechCrunch website. The idea was to make Netflix subscribers no longer use iTunes to pay the monthly fee, as an analysis showed that Apple kept 30% of the amount paid during the first year (2015) and 15 % in subsequent years.
At the time, Netflix also confirmed the change and promised that, if successful, the model would be expanded to more regions of the world, as is happening now.
iTunes is Apple’s media management application. Previously, the tool only worked as an audio organizer, now it also supports managing other content, such as movies and series.
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