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The app appears to have been explicitly designed to enable cloning the iPod Classic interface, and making that skin something you download separately was a work
by lilyball 7y ago
The app appears to have been explicitly designed to enable cloning the iPod Classic interface, and making that skin something you download separately was a workaround because it’s pretty obvious that it would get rejected if it shipped that way.
I really don’t see this as Apple overreaching, especially given that the app is charging people for Apple Music features, which is definitely not okay.
- lern_too_spel 7y ago> given that the app is charging people for Apple Music features What Apple Music features is it charging for? That isn't even a thing that Apple complained about. > The app appears to have been explicitly designed to enable cloning the iPod Classic interface The default is not an iPod classic interface. I can just as easily make an iPod classic skin for WinAmp. The solution, as always, is to simply avoid Apple's arbitrarily restricted platforms.
- lilyball 7y agoTheir own description of the app says > We launched an App that let you customize your iPhone to look like a 2000s era MP3 player. It's pretty obvious what the intention is. And while I don't know precisely how skins work, it's hard to imagine that they enabled clickwheel scrolling by accident. > What Apple Music features is it charging for? That isn't even a thing that Apple complained about. I don't know specifically but even their own blog post explicitly cites this as one of the 3 things Apple pulled their app for: > 2. Charging for Apple Music features > This is less unreasonable […]