as you start getting significant uptake in uploads and downloads, they start looking at your situation more carefully, and then as any good Mafia extortion goes, they come to shake you down for some money.Īpple apparently told ProtonMail "out of the blue" that it was required to add an in-app purchase option to stay in the App Store. (They'd launched on iOS in 2016.) "But a common practice we see. ProtonMail at the time had a paid email service but did not offer it in the app, with the App Store version being available for free.įor the first two years we were in the App Store, that was fine, no issues there," he says. Yen told The Verge that back in 2018, ProtonMail was forced to add in-app purchases to its app, which had been in the App Store since 2016. Apple's dispute with "HEY" wasn't the first time the Cupertino company tried to force an email app into adding in-app purchases, according to ProtonMail CEO Andy Yen.
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