Yes, you won’t see that happening when buying on Apple app store because they don’t share your email.
I was mostly talking about avoiding Paddle as a payment processor, the app store isn’t a payment processor so we can’t really compare them.
I’d still say the spam came from a seller sharing your address, or leaking it by mistake, not from how Paddle works.
If your issue would be Paddle related and recurrent, I don’t think they would still be in the business as trust is very important when handling money and customer data and soon no one would choose them anymore.
The fundamental issue here is that developers, at scale, cannot be trusted. You can trust specific ones to do the right thing but you can’t trust them all. Apple sees themselves as responsible for protecting all of their customers from this reality. Others call them “gatekeepers”. The example here is sharing an email address with developers. There are other examples like “no background processes”. Developers hate this becuase they see _themselves_ as trustworthy but the reality still stands: developers at scale cannot be trusted to do the right thing.
Now let me add my opinion on this: Should we have a platform that allows consumers to make a single choice ie) choose Apple, and by proxy never needs to trust developers at scale? Absolutely. Many people, especially developers, would rather trade some developer flexibility (multiple payment processors) and push some responsibility onto Apple’s users to continue making an opt-in choice for Apple. I choose them for my phone. I just them again for in-app purchases. Continue making choices in support of Apple for each layer of the system. I am not really sure what this buys the consumer. What is Apple blocking from you by forcing you to make that choice once, and then being forced to “never trust developers at scale” for the remainder of being an iPhone customer. Is it blocking “innovation”? Some people think that. I don’t see it. I see a company that pushes the hardware envelope with sensors, battery, operating system, etc, and works hard to give developers access to THOSE things. Maybe not a users email address, but is that really innovation anyway? I looked at this Paddle payment processor and they have some things like “pause subscription”. Is pause really an innovation that is being blocked by only using Apple’s system? Google has supported pause for a long time. Users want it, but to developers really want users pausing their subs? probably not.
> Should we have a platform that allows consumers to make a single choice ie) choose Apple, and by proxy never needs to trust developers at scale? Absolutely.
I view any attempt at using regulation to prevent or block or eliminate this valid choice as the actually anti-competitive play.
I was mostly talking about avoiding Paddle as a payment processor, the app store isn’t a payment processor so we can’t really compare them.
I’d still say the spam came from a seller sharing your address, or leaking it by mistake, not from how Paddle works.
If your issue would be Paddle related and recurrent, I don’t think they would still be in the business as trust is very important when handling money and customer data and soon no one would choose them anymore.