Report: Apple secretly met with developers to push subscriptions on the App Store

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In the spring of 2017, Apple convened a group of more than 30 software developers at a Tribeca loft in New York City. The iPhone maker wanted to walk them through a major change that was coming to the company's App Store.

The purpose of the meeting, which was first disclosed this week in a report from Business Insider, was for Apple to get buy-in from the developers, a demographic it needs on board to execute a paradigm shift in the central business model for the App Store. In short, Apple wants to move away from one-time app purchases and get users hooked into subscribing instead. Which means, of course, a steady revenue stream for developers previously used to setting a fixed up-front fee -- and it would also mean more money, of course, for Apple, which would certainly take its cut of the new revenue stream.

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