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> It feels like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Lawsuits against Apple's App Store policy enforcement are already in progress, but Apple has the best lawyers mone
by coder543 6y ago
> It feels like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Lawsuits against Apple's App Store policy enforcement are already in progress, but Apple has the best lawyers money can buy, and rulings are years away.
If a substantial part of your business risked being terminated at the click of a button by some unelected person that you have never met, with no proper way to appeal such an unjust decision, you'd probably think twice about doing something that could be misconstrued as intentionally violating App Store Guidelines too.
I blame Apple for the lack of clarity both in their rules and their enforcement. I don't blame ProtonMail for trying to adhere to Apple's arbitrary rules that often make little sense.
- powersnail 6y agoAt least part of the job of those lawyers is to tell Apple to not fight unlikely battles; or at least I hope. Apple wasn't crazy enough to go after Amazon Kindle app for asking the user to buy ebooks on Amazon.com, which bypassed Apple's system. Probably---hopefully---they aren't crazy enough to fight a email client for sending emails regarding upgrade plans.
- deleuze 6y agoAbsolute 0% of those lawyers jobs is to tell Apple to not pursue litigation. Do you understand what the point of litigation is for a company this size? They have over $100 billion in cash, even the most expensive lawyers salaries is a drop in the bucket. They can afford to drag a company like Protonmail through the mud for decades if they want to.