offtopic, but on the page there is a note with: There’s one elaborate exception that we discussed in Under The Radar #98: workout apps, which are

offtopic, but on the page there is a note with: There’s one elaborate exception that we discussed in Under The Radar #98: workout apps, which are allowed to run in the background and play audio. So this all becomes possible if you combine a standalone podcast player with a workout app, and only allow podcast playback while a workout is active that was started from that app. But this forces the combination of two completely different app types, and users would find the workout-during-playback requirement confusing, inexplicable, and limiting. Requiring podcast apps to also be workout apps is a user- and developer-hostile hack that Apple probably doesn’t intend. whaaat? what kind of OS has this business rules so embedded?