David Heinemeier Hansson: 'Apple Has Approved Hey Without In-App Purchasing '

The tweet leads to a blog post that begins:

Late Friday night, on June 19th, Apple’s App Store Review Board surprised us by approving the pending bug fixes to the HEY iOS app that were held up all last week... A sincere thanks to Apple for their change of heart.

https://hey.com/apple/path/

It looks like this may have been self-regulation as the app store seems to have been coming under fire lately as being monopolistic. After seeing what happened with Android in the EU I would suspect that Apple wants to be much more cautious when they receive bad PR like they were receiving.

Apple also quietly announced a change to the App Store review process, including no longer delaying bug fix rollouts over guideline violations for applications that are already available on the store, and a formal appeals process and the ability to challenge the store guideline themselves:

https://www.engadget.com/apple-developers-challenge-app-stor...

So many folks said "It's Apple's store, they should be able to do whatever they want". But if everyone is too scared to complain, for sure nothing will change!

More news from DHH:

We're going to celebrate what looks to be an agreeable compromise by ACCELERATING INVITATIONS!! We will invite everyone who's still pending first, then open HEY up to anyone who wants it THIS WEEK.