News Summary

• Subscription platform Substack will begin taking advantage of an option on the U.S. App Store that allows users to make purchases outside of Apple’s in-app purchasing system.
• Support for external payments will benefit both the company, which no longer has to pay the App Store a commission on those web sales, and consumers.
• The company says early tests of the expanded set of payment options have driven a boost in paid sign-ups.
• The public launch of the external payments option will only impact new Substack subscriptions.