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Re:Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations by GVIrish on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:52AM (#23552135)
That is literally the issue that Hey is having right now. They have provided no means of subscribing inside the app, but now Apple is telling them that they'll remove the app from the App Store if they don't add Apple IAP. Meanwhile, Basecamp has operated the same way for years. The rationale Apple gave was that Basecamp is primarily a business app, but if that is the case, how does Gmail get away with the same thing?

Meanwhile Netflix, Gmail, Uber, and a couple of other big apps don't use the Apple IAP system.

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Re:Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations by ryanwaggoner on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:22AM (#23552500)
This sounds exactly like the isolated example i was talking about. Apple is clearly in the wrong here, and this will get resolved. There are tens of thousands of apps out there that don’t offer IAP that you need a subscription purchased elsewhere to use.

Again, Apple is in the wrong here, but this is not a good example of a widespread pattern imo. Not something worth an antitrust case over.

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