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It’s obviously intentional. I’ve never heard about Hey. Then today, first they post something else and now someone defrosts this tired whine about Apple monetiz
by jpttsn 6y ago
It’s obviously intentional. I’ve never heard about Hey. Then today, first they post something else and now someone defrosts this tired whine about Apple monetizing, and Hey (whatever it is) tops the list. Sigh. Good work marketers, people seem to buy it.
- 1123581321 6y agoThey had a large audience before this.
- maest 6y agoSo just because the publicity benefits Hey, the point about Apple's unequal treatment of devs on their platform is invalidated? Also, I'm not sure how Hey orchestrated this - do they have someone on the inside who they had reject their app?
- jpttsn 6y agoNo, though it’s invalidated for other reasons, the enumeration of which would here seem only to cause a resounding whoosh passing overhead. It’s child’s play to orchestrate this. It amounts to getting thrown out of a bar for not wearing pants, and then putting up ishouldbeabletovisitbarswithoutpants.com. Not something that requires a man on the inside.
- lern_too_spel 6y agoThey didn't change anything in their app. How could they have known that Apple would suddenly enforce a rule on them that they had not previously enforced?
- jpttsn 6y ago“So how do we raise awareness” “Well, let’s ask Apple for some workaround for the 30%, skirt the rules a bit” “They’ll never go for that” “Of course not, but while it lasts we’ll get 30% more. Then once we get rejected, sooner or later, we’ll write some blog posts and suddenly a bunch of nerds will see us as the brave underdog“
- rydre 6y agoIt's every independent developers benefit. The guy "DHH" - also the maker of ruby on rails said that he wants the rules to be consistent and changed for EVERYONE.
- jp_sc 6y agoThey already have a waiting list with 70K people motivated enough to write an "email story" to be there. They don't need gimmicks.