{"id":19228,"date":"2024-01-06T09:54:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T04:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/apples-rejection-of-hey-calendar-app-renews-an-old-fight\/"},"modified":"2024-01-06T09:54:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T04:24:41","slug":"apples-rejection-of-hey-calendar-app-renews-an-old-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/apples-rejection-of-hey-calendar-app-renews-an-old-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s rejection of Hey calendar app renews an old fight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The new year was supposed to begin with a brand spanking new calendar app. But roughly 72 hours after the premium email service Hey announced its latest feature \u2014 an integrated calendar \u2014 co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson received some unwelcome news from Apple: it was rejecting a standalone iOS app for Hey Calendar, because non-paying users couldn\u2019t do anything when they opened the app up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
New users can\u2019t sign up for Hey Calendar directly on the app \u2014\u00a0Basecamp, which makes Hey, makes users first sign up through a browser. Apple\u2019s App Store rules require most paid services to offer users the ability to pay and sign up through the app, ensuring the company gets up to a 30 percent cut. The controversial rule has a ton of gray areas and carve-outs (i.e. reader apps like Spotify and Kindle get an exception) and is the subject of antitrust fights in multiple countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n