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> I'm not sure there are any commercial products that were in the App Store and were then removed because of a change in Apple's TOS Well, at the very least, t
by fpgeek 14y ago
> I'm not sure there are any commercial products that were in the App Store and were then removed because of a change in Apple's TOS
Well, at the very least, the removal gun has been pointed at a lot of commercial apps when Apple has decided to "re-interpret" the TOS.
For instance, it used to be standard practice to kick someone out to your website to buy an ebook (i.e. the appropriate alternative to IAP). Over the course of several months, it became a TOS violation.
Apps that required an external subscription used to include sign-up links on their login screen. Now they don't.
How many commercial apps were hit by the Apple's app store programming language restriction?
Or, if we're including the Mac App Store, how many apps and developers have left it over sandboxing?
Yes, Apple isn't likely to shut down their app store completely. But, whenever they want, they can (and might sometimes do) kill a part of it that you care about, for their own internal reasons.