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Apple Gives Thumbs Up to Hey Email App After Update Rejection

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday June 24 2020, @08:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the gotta-pay-that-vigorish dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

Apple gives thumbs up to Hey email app after update rejection:

Apple approved an update for subscription-based emailing app Hey over the weekend, after rejecting one last week, developer Basecamp said on Monday. It came as Apple prepared for its Worldwide Developer Conference event on Monday.

Basecamp tweeted that updates had been rejected multiple times, as noted by TechCrunch, apparently because it didn't offer an in-app purchase for the full $99-a-year service. The app also lacked functionality when downloaded -- you have to visit the company's website to sign up.

It's not like Apple doesn't publish the do's and don'ts for applications submitted to the app store. As a developer you ignore them at your own peril. On the other hand, Apple does pretty much have a monopoly on applications for iOS devices and if you want to play, you have to give them a slice.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:31AM (#1011921)

    They have a "razor and blades" business model. They give away their hardware at cost, and make money on the applications.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @02:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @02:25PM (#1011972)

    It wouldn't be the first time Apple gave someone the finger [wikipedia.org].

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:41AM (#1012223)

    Make to many waves and their market cap could fall below a trillion. And just think, if you cut off ALL their revenue they’d whip through savings and go bankrupt in ONE YEAR.

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