News about Apple using their monopoly power to exert pressure on HEY and other developers:
- The Verge Spotify, Epic, Tile, Match, and more are rallying developers against Apple’s App Store policies
- BBC Apple accused of ‘hostile’ app fee policies
- New York Times Is It Finally Hammer Time for Apple and Its App Store?
- CNBC Why Apple’s App Store is under fire
- The Verge HEY.com exec says Apple is acting like ‘gangsters,’ rejecting App Store updates and demanding cut of sales and Apple’s App Store policies are bad, but its interpretation and enforcement are worse and Apple’s App Store fees are ‘highway robbery,’ says House antitrust committee chair
- EFF Apple’s Response to HEY Showcases What’s Most Broken About the Apple App Store
- WIRED Apple Threatens to Move Basecamp’s New Email App to Trash
- Business Insider Apple is facing rage and insurrection from developers over the commission it charges apps on the App Store
- Protocol A new email startup says Apple’s shaking it down for a cut of its subscriptions
- Axios EU’s Apple suit bares tech’s global antitrust threat
- 9to5Mac App Store rejects previously-approved ‘HEY’ email app from Basecamp
- Macworld Apple picks a fight with popular app developer Basecamp on eve of WWDC
- Tech Crunch Apple doubles down on its right to profit from other businesses
- Forbes Apple To Basecamp’s HEY: Expect To Pay Us If You Want To Sell Privacy
- Daring Fireball Basecamp’s New App, HEY, Flagged in App Store Limbo for Not Using In-App Purchase and The Flimsiness of ‘Business vs. Consumer’ as a Justification for Apple’s Rejection of HEY From the App Store for Not Using In-App Purchases
- Apple Insider Apple pressures email app ‘HEY’ to integrate in-app purchase option