Of all the ways to get paid for the work you put into app development, the best by far is subscriptions. In this article, I hope to look at the best practices outlined in the WWDC2019 talk and link that to the talk on the same subject in a WWDC2020 presentation on architecting for subscriptions. I’ll be completing my discussion with a code example, of course.

But first, a little background. The whole IT app industry has been moving towards subscriptions for more than a decade now. Amazon was one of the first players with AWS in 2006. Microsoft and Apple launched products in 2011: Office 365 and iCloud. And even Adobe joined the party in 2013 with their Creative Suite going online.

It’s the gold standard cause it’s a regular income — it helps get over the bumps in the road. Of course, some industries have been doing this for decades, telecoms and publishing to name but two. And as such, an entire science has grown up around it. Let’s take a closer look.

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