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The title is misleading at best. Apple does not care what support you have. They just don't want you to advertise that in their app store.
by berkay 11y ago
The title is misleading at best. Apple does not care what support you have. They just don't want you to advertise that in their app store.
- creshal 11y agoYep. Same if you mention in your app that it's also available on Android. Fascist? Yes. Surprising? No. New? Certainly not.
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- commandar 11y agoOther comments seem to indicate that this previously wasn't an issue for Pebble support. From a consumer perspective, I can see Apple's argument that mentioning Android support doesn't matter because the app running on Android has no bearing on whether it works on your iOS device or not. But for something like a wearable, that's absolutely information I want as a consumer. To me, it's much closer to an app being able to say whether they support BTLE heart rate monitors or not. It's something that interfaces directly with the device. I suspect the actual reason Apple is suddenly expanding what it considers a mobile platform is that it's a preemptive strike against Android Wear support for iOS.
- mikeash 11y agoThere's a pretty big difference between "we also have a version of this app available for Android" and "this iOS app, right here, the one you're looking at and downloading, supports Pebble." Apple saying you can't advertise other versions of your product is slightly dickish but totally understandable. Apple saying you can't advertise features of your iOS app because they happen to involve competing products is completely unreasonable.
- cybrox 11y agoStill though, as a user, I want to know which platforms the app I'm downloading/buying supports. Granted, you could say it's advertisement but if you scratch every mention of any 'other' platform from App stores, platform compability and therefore user conform is decreased drastically!
- piyush_soni 11y agoWhich is kind of stupid right? If I'm supporting a platform, wouldn't I need to WRITE THAT in my description? What a load of BS these Apple guidelines are.
- vinceguidry 11y agoI think Apple expects you to bury it on your app's webpage.
- tveita 11y agoI think it's pretty clear Apple expects you to not add support at all, since you can't advertise it anywhere users will see it anyway. It is a tool for controlling the behavior of both users and developers by using their control of an unrelated platform.
- vinceguidry 11y agoNah, looks to me like they're just controlling what they're allowing others to display directly on their platform. You can still support Pebble, you can still advertise that you support Pebble, you just have to advertise that on a different platform than Apple's. Sounds reasonable, if a bit inconvenient.
- tveita 11y agoAssuming the rules were consistently enforced: Users find apps for their iPhone on the App Store. There are no other app stores for the iPhone. Users do not visit an app's web page before they install it. Users will not find anything when they search the app store for e.g. "navigation app with pebble support". Users will not see Pebble support listed as a feature when they compare two apps. Developers know from the above that they won't gain any appreciable number of users by adding Pebble support. In that light I don't see much difference between banning mentioning a feature and banning the feature itself.
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