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> Purchases possible without Apple? > $99/year email service, of which Apple is rent-seeking $30 I'm wholly on Hey's side here, but I think this is a misleadi
by paulgb 6y ago
> Purchases possible without Apple?
> $99/year email service, of which Apple is rent-seeking $30
I'm wholly on Hey's side here, but I think this is a misleading way of putting it. Apple only wants 30% of in-app purchases, not purchases made outside of the app. The contention is that Hey thinks they shouldn't be required to accept in-app purchases, which given that either Hey or the user pays Apple an expensive tax on those purchases, makes sense to me.
- CyberMew 6y agoThat is exactly what it means. If it costs $100, Apple is taking a $30 cut.
- paulgb 6y agoIf the purchase is made in the app, yes. The wording on the site makes it sound like Apple wants a cut of purchases made outside of the app.
- jonplackett 6y agowell they kinda do, they're saying that they can't do the purchase outside the app and must do it instead in the app, and give them 30%
- paulgb 6y agoNo, they allow you to have out-of-app sign ups as long as you also have in-app sign-ups, and you can't reference the out-of-app signups (e.g. link to them) from within the app.
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- Hamuko 6y agoAnd Apple rejected the app because you can't buy that $99 service via IAP, meaning they have no ability to get their 30%.
- MattGaiser 6y agoTie it to an API and break the API later?
- Hamuko 6y agoYeah, I imagine that's going to go down real well with Cupertino.
- MattGaiser 6y ago"We are having some problems with our servers today. We had to hire a cheap SRE."
- jedieaston 6y agoWell, there __is__ In-App Purchase support, but it only works if your IP is in the 17.0.0.0/8 block. We put it in because we knew it was very important to Apple ;)
- Hamuko 6y agoAh yes, Volkswagen engineering.
- davidedicillo 6y agoMy first thought was that it has been rejected because it's invite-only and there's no way to use the app unless you are on a special list.