[drchaim]

I'm probably missing something, but can't Hey just make subscriptions in their page and let the App from free in the App Store?

Is the same as gmail, I can pay for a Google Suite, but the app is freely distributed in stores.

Basecamp should have great products (I've never used them), but it seems they are using this as a marketing strategy.

[simonh]

>I'm probably missing something, but can't Hey just make subscriptions in their page and let the App from free in the App Store?

That is exactly what they are doing at the moment. Apple has decided to invent a new requirement that this approach is only valid for business applications, and consumer client apps must offer in-app signup and purchase.

I'm generally pro-Apple on these issues. It's their store running on their products on their infrastructure. However in this case I don't believe Hey is violating the current stated and published app store rules. Apple's decision in this case seems capricious and arbitrary, and more than a little hypocritical.

[libertine]

Didn't apple pull something similar with Spotify, that tried to direct users to their page for subscription and Apple warned/suspended them for doing so?

Edit: Confirmed.

>Spotify’s complaint against Apple is a good example(1)(2)(3). Apple charges Spotify a 30% fee to use the App Store(4) and limits how it can communicate with its users. Apple is the owner of the iOS platform and the App Store and is a direct competitor of Spotify(5).

source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2019-00299...