![]() I wouldn’t have guessed that the cloud exit discourse, which only really gained steam in 2023, would already be influencing one of the three major hyperscalers! This applies to all customers globally."īut as shocking as the fact that Google is dropping the egress racket is, I'm almost more stunned to see them recognizing its benefit for those leaving the cloud in addition to those moving between competitors. The change is effective immediately: "Starting today, Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their data to another cloud provider and/or on premises, can take advantage of free network data transfer to migrate their data out of Google Cloud. We’ve been preparing for our own departure from AWS S3 at 37signals, and the price for taking our data elsewhere is in the crazy-land region of $300,000-$400,000! So imagine my surprise seeing the announcement that Google is doing away with the extortionate egress fee entirely for GCP. The absurd egress fees charged by major hyperscalers have been one of the biggest impediments for companies to leave the cloud. Hopefully that will happen again and a thousand free-market flowers will bloom once no longer deprived of access to sun, water, and customers.Īpple rejects the HEY Calendar from their App Store ![]() The last time the DOJ sued Microsoft in the late 90s/early 2000s, it inflicted a serious wound on Redmond’s capacity to capture markets, which gave us the rise of Google, Apple, and others. So too could the lawsuit by the American Department of Justice that was just revealed to be imminent today. We have the Digital Markets Act coming in the EU in just a couple of months. Hopefully our example, and the countless others we’ve seen over the years, will finally force competition authorities around the world to act. ![]() They carve out exceptions left and right to mega corporations they’d rather not anger, then invent entirely new rules that aren’t codified anywhere when it suits them, and finally rebuts every demand for consistency and predictability with “just submit your app and we’ll review”. HEY Calendar is a free companion app to that very same service.īut Apple has become so emboldened by a decade+ of monopoly reign that they don’t even feign a superficial adherence to their own rules. VOIP, Cloud Storage, Email Services, Web Hosting) do not need to use in-app purchase, provided there is no purchasing inside the app, or calls to action for purchase outside of the app."Īs you can see, Email Services are specifically mentioned because HEY fought this battle once already back in 2020. "3.1.3(f) Free Stand-alone Apps: Free apps acting as a standalone companion to a paid web based tool (eg. Nowhere in the Apple App Store Guidelines is there a prohibition on apps that require preexisting accounts! The only ruleset that’s relevant to this discussion is that which governs who has to use in-app payments and who can avoid it: All greet the user with the same gate: Login with your existing account.īut none of this even matters. ![]() Here are just four: Salesforce, JPMorgan, Netflix, and Google Calendar. The App Store is filled with high-profile applications that require an existing service account and simply presents a login screen when first launched. That is because users are required to login with an existing account to use the functionality. This time with our new calendar feature, HEY Calendar, which we dared make a separate app.Īfter spending 19 days to review our submission, causing us to miss a long-planned January 2nd launch date, Apple rejected our stand-alone free companion app “because it doesn’t do anything”. We could have used that today!īecause HEY is back on trial in their kangaroo court. If you’ve managed to overturn a rejection of your service once, they can’t come after you on the same service again later. There should at least be a standard of double jeopardy when it comes to the app store monopoly regimes.
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