I wish trials didn't require me signing up for a subscription. I have a bad habit of doing a trial and then life happens and suddenly I'm charged for something I forgot to cancel and can't get a refund. I might give this a go for a trial but I'm always so hesitant.
Subscriptions of this sort are done that way on purpose, because lots of people forget to cancel. And if you have to call a human to do the cancellation, well, that's the beauty of doing an ad campaign. Most of the people who need to cancel will try to do it at the last minute and find out that the phone lines are tied up with other people who signed up on the same couple of days they did.
The App Store definitely has its capital-I Issues, but the way it handles subscriptions really isn't one of them -- you can cancel online with no hassle, and you're sent an email reminder before you're charged or your subscription renews. (This is at least true with annual subscriptions; I don't know about monthly offhand.) And you can always check what you're subscribed to, when things will renew, and for how much.
FYI you can go into the subscription settings on the app store right after starting the trial and cancel it. It will still run for the same duration and itβs easy to resubscribe again when the trial runs out.
