The "small print" above is what you'll be presented with if you download anything new from the Apple App Store.
It's changes to Apple's Terms and Conditions and it's the clearest sign yet that in-app subscriptions for magazines and newspapers are just around the corner.
Basically, it asks you to agree to let Apple suck money from your iTunes-registered credit card for subscriptions until you cancel.
The first app using this method is the iPad newspaper "The Daily", which launched today in the US.
During the launch, Apple's VP of Internet Services, Eddy Cue, said there would be an announcement "soon". It seems certain that Apple will be demanding that all iPad publications use its subscription method with the app developers getting 70% of your money and Apple 30%.
It's aimed at stopping publishers taking subscriptions through, say, their websites...leaving Apple with 0%.
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