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How funny it is to remove this app because it "loads executable" as they released Swift Playground years ago... Plus the new feature of creating and packaging
by LucidLynx 5y ago
How funny it is to remove this app because it "loads executable" as they released Swift Playground years ago...
Plus the new feature of creating and packaging your iOS / iPadOS app + uploading it, directly on the iPad.
Apple seems to contradict its own rules since a few years now.
- codetrotter 5y agoThere's no contradiction here. The App Store rules apply to everyone else wanting to publish something on the App Store. Obviously Apple has its own internal rules for what their own software can do.
- gsich 5y agoSome are more equal than others.
- LucidLynx 5y agoSwift Playground is listed in the App Store... So no, Apple apps listed in the App Store must follow their rules. I checked quickly in the guide and no mention of "Me, Apple, can do whatever I want in my store."
- pjmlp 5y agoHere is an exercise, when a police patrol car gets parked in 2nd lane, and the officier happens to buying some stuff on a nearby shop, go there and tell them nicely that 2nd lane parking is against the traffic laws and they should fine themselves. Broken analogy? Apple is the police of Apple store.
- codetrotter 5y agoApple doesn’t need to say in the rules that they can do what they want, because they are the ones enforcing the rules. They can exempt anyone, including themselves, from the rules for any reason including no reason, without having to say anything about that in the rules. Human rules are not computer code, and also not mathematical. Human rules can be interpreted, bent and ignored. Sometimes at great risk, sometimes at no risk.
- user-the-name 5y agoThey don't, though, at least not in this case. There are special exemptions for educational programming software in the App Store, that covers Swift Playgrounds, but also others wanting to create similar things.
- user-the-name 5y agoThe rules include a limited exception for educational purposes, which Swift Playgrounds also falls under.
- LucidLynx 5y agoYou're totally right. Thanks!
- arvinsim 5y agoAnd when did they make that exception?
- user-the-name 5y agoProbably around the time they launched Swift Playgrounds, I have not checked. They set the rules, they get to change the rules. But the same rules still apply them as to everyone else.
- post_break 5y agoI'd consider Oregon trail educational, but that's just me.