Could Apple Be Forced to Reduce App Store Fees?

Just ahead of Apple's World-Wide Developer Conference, the company is getting a lot of heat about their app store fees.

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DHH

@dhh

Apple doubles down on their rejection of HEY in the App Store, but adds some spice to it at the end: YOU UNGRATEFUL PEASANTS! No mention of how Basecamp differs, how Gmail differs, how Outlook differs, how Fastmail differs. Just more edicts from the monopoly king! twitter.com/DylanByers/sta

20:51 PM - 18 Jun 2020

Dylan Byers @DylanByers

#Break: APPLE has sent an email to Basecamp founder and CEO @jasonfried in which it stands by its decision to reject the Hey Email app.Apple shared the email, which is signed by the "App Review Board," with @NBCNews (below). Full story here: https://t.co/bsM6qTFZJK https://t.co/moNxXhppov

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TLDR: The Basecamp folks are being loud about their treatment under App Store rules and Apple's attempts to earn 30% fees. These rules more or less date back to the inception of the app store, and somehow Apple has avoided much scrutiny in the matter.

Nobody is better at causing a fuss about this kind of stuff than DHH and Basecamp.

How do you predict this will shake out?