I chuckled when I read this. Work out a compromise with Apple? Most reasonable people would view Apple's position as being too constraining on content providers. If another tech giant whom I won't mention pulled a move like this, then people who be up in arms about it. But no, not for Apple ;-)
Well, clearly that wasn't the case. Unless the 'compromise' consisted of Apple relenting fully. Almost all the terms of IAP for subscriptions that were unfavorable to publishers have been removed.