Apple allows Hey app to continue it's updates on App Store

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After a week-long battle over Hey app violating App Store's guideline, Apple has finally decided to let Basecamp, the publisher of Hey email app, to continue to provide updates and bug fixes for Hey app on App Store, with the option to resume its updates there had been quite some made to Hey app.

Hey app will now let anyone join and use the app, previously only the ones that were invited by others can use the app. Along with that change, Hey app was also offering 14-days free burner accounts to the users. The new version 1.0.3 has been released to the iOS users, Apple allowed Hey app because Hey app now follows all the guidelines that it failed to follow which led to the rejection to publish further updates.

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Apple has updated its policy and said that it will no longer pause updates from being published on the App Store based on the guideline violations. It all started when Hey App did not include an in-app purchase option when there is a yearly subscription of $99 is available for the users.

Apple will take a 30% cut through these in-app purchases and only a few "Reader Apps" are excluded. Because of the restrictions that were placed on Hey app, its co-creator David Heinemeier Hansson has criticized apple and even gone so far to call them gangsters.