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Apple has accepted Hey’s new calendar app, according to 37signals co-owner David Heinemeier Hansson (aka DHH), ending a brief but familiar App Store battle between the two companies. Apple rejected the calendar app last week, arguing that it didn’t do anything if you don’t subscribe to a Hey account — which is the same line of argument that led Apple to initially reject Hey’s email app in 2020.
Hey had planned to launch the calendar app on January 2nd, but after learning of the rejection on January 5th, the company scrambled to update the app and resubmit it to better meet Apple’s guidelines. On Monday, DHH said that the revised version of the calendar app would let you look through Apple history on the calendar if you don’t have an…