Founder and CTO of Basecamp and Hey, David Heinemeier Hansson recounts their battle with Apple and the policy changes needed in the App Store.
In June 2020 Basecamp launched Hey, a new email service and app on iPhone and Android. After the app was already approved in Apple s App Store, a minor update triggered the Hey app to be rejected due to a lack of in-app purchase options.
Despite many apps following the same business model, such as Netflix and Fastmail, a drawn-out battle ensued between Hey and Apple that sparked a larger conversation regarding antitrust and App Store policy.
On the podcast, Hansson recounts the events that took place during the Hey app dispute and argues for a major change in the App Store policy: that Apple should finally allow users to install apps directly from developers without going through the App Store.
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Last September, the CEOs of four of the biggest tech companies in the U.S. faced the House Antitrust Subcommittee.
At that meeting, the CEOs of Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Facebook (the only one missing was Microsoft s Satya Nadella) were grilled on a wide range of subjects under the broad umbrella of an anti-trust probe.
Then in October, the CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter all faced lawmakers again, this time to defend the legal liability shield that underpins their business models. At the end of February 2021, the judiciary committee s antitrust subcommittee met again to hear testimony from companies and other parties that claim they have been mistreated by the tech giants. And later this month, the bosses of Twitter, Google and Facebook will appear again in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is looking at the way misinformation is posted and spread by their platforms.
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On July 2020, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the heads of Amazon, Google and Apple were all fired with heated questions from members of the House Antitrust Subcommittee.
This incident has sparked questions about online privacy. Now Mark Zuckerberg s greatest enemy in this sector is not from the government, but from another tech mogul Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Apple vs. Facebook
On January 28, Cook gave a speech explaining Apple s upcoming privacy changes, which will ban apps from sharing the online behavior of iPhone users with third party companies unless the users themselves give consent, according to Vox.
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Zuckerberg is certainly right about one thing: Apple is using its dominant position in the mobile phone market to unilaterally impose a major change to how user data is tracked and shared online. Establishing an “opt in” regime, in which privacy is the default and users have to give affirmative consent to share their data, has long been a dream of privacy activists. Few people are willing to take the trouble of opting out of every individual site or app they use, let alone the ones they don’t know are tracking them. Opt-in is considered so politically and even legally difficult to achieve, however, that even California’s newly enacted privacy law, the most ambitious in the nation, doesn’t go that far. And yet Apple, a private company, can flip a switch and achieve what no US government regulator has at least when it comes to the roughly half of the US mobile market that it controls. (Internationally, Google’s Android operat
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