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Apple Approves Basecamp's Email App 'Hey' With Newly Added 14-Day Free Account Option [Updated]
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After the free trial, yes.
But if you do actually pay then decide to cancel later, you get to keep the address permanently as a forwarder to some other email.
Also, I find it to be potentially problematic that they are very upfront about the fact that it will never be supportive of something like IMAP.
I don’t know - it just seems like that is a cop out to some extent. I think they could be supporting that and still enabling the majority of their features.
Their super minimalistic and very opinionated user interface is not to my loving.
The Feed view for instance I find to be awful.
I will give them credit for being upfront about the fact that they know they won’t appeal to everybody and they are hopeful this encourages change with other email providers.
I am hopeful that FastMail might adopt some of the better points here. On the whole I totally love FastMail because it is exceptionally feature rich and very versatile.
Except that apps such as Uber, and I'll mention the LIRR and New Jersey Transit app fall into this category as well, the payment is for a future service and does not unlock any functionality within the app. Not to mention, these apps allow a sign-up option within the app. My guess is there is a class of apps with these similar exemptions.
Agreed.
All of this is hype by Basecamp and the owner to get their app noticed. Plain and simple. They were struggling before because anyone who already uses Outlook beyond the basic email reader won't find value in Hey and then you have several cleaner free email apps that don't charge for those who need basic email. I haven't found another email app yet that touches Outlook when it comes to the use case described. I tried several to help me sort and clean up my errant Yahoo mailbox (have 200K unread emails alone). Outlook is the only one that can get it done.
I also love that Outlook blocks pictures by default so you can decide if you want to download them or not.
Yes, they allowed that in exchange for the promise that the next update coming soon will add the free account. Apple does that all the time - they tell you "this is a problem. we'll let it slide but you must fix for next revision." Happened to me twice.
Easy to say, harder to prove, imo. I never felt like I was being harmed...as a matter of fact the information provided to me about the app I had on the app store was very useful.
Well, hell, then I can just use Outlook and do the work myself! LOL!
Brilliant....followed advice from Apple’s very first email - how hard was that? Now they have exactly the same functionality as the Fastmail app, which was approved long ago and with minimal fanfare.
If anybody wants truly private email however, have a look at ProtonMail which actually provides a service worth paying for.
If anybody wants truly private email however, have a look at ProtonMail which actually provides a service worth paying for.
Sure, but deciding whether it's useful enough to justify a 30 percent cut should be your call, not Apple's. If you want to sell mac software, you can sell it on any old place. (I haven't used the Apple store to buy software in quite some time. Granted, many of my purchases are games, and there are at least three well established game markets-- gog, steam, and epic)
But if you want to sell ios software, there is no other option but to sell on the appstore.
Yep, that's the system for IOS. As a dev you have to decide if the IOS app store and walled garden is right for you.
There are always barriers of entry in all walks of life, for all types of situations. This is just one on a laundry list of items that have to be considered. So it's automatically not a negative.
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Maybe this will weed out the developers who want to foist a less than ideal experience for their potential customers.
I take it you're not a developer, or someone who's read any news in the past year.
I actually am a developer. In fact, i was one of the first 400 developers admitted to the program when they first started it. And it's made me a lot of money.
It’s gonna take more than whining about App Store policies to get me to pay $99 a year for email.
No idea what you’re referring to as “chin music”. Schiller clearly told Hey they would be approved if they added a time-limited trial as others have done.
Hey and that ass ddh caved 🤷♂️
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Hey caved like cheap suit and agreed to put sign in functionality into the app. Caving is less costly than a lawsuit that can be hit or miss.
Fastmail seems a lot more reasonable with plans at $30, $50 and $90.
Except for the $30 plan, Fastmail supports email for yourdomain.com. Maybe I misunderstood an earlier post, but iirc with Hey you have to use a hey.com email address; no thanks.
That's not in the paragraph that you mentioned (3.1.3a). Where do the guidelines say that apps offering "functionality that doesn't require payment" can offer subscriptions without offering in-app billing, even if they are not "Reader apps"?