So Apple ended up relenting on most of the requirements introduced at the same time as subscriptions. Apple does still require that apps not sell digital content in the app itself through means other than in-app purchases, or link to a place where this is done, however. I would say this is a reasonable way [...]

So it’s true. Along with announcing support for subscriptions, Apple has confirmed the policy changes that many suspected were behind the rejection of the Sony Reader app: that apps can no longer link to a place to buy content for the app (there can still be such a place, just it must not be linked [...]

(Sudden breakout of Haendel’s Alleluia Chorus) Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluuuuia! (Now, it doesn’t solve everything debatable about the iOS App Store, we’re mostly back to before the changes made in april: it’s a bit better than that as now sealed interpreted scripts are explicitly allowed, while back then they were in a limbo; also, [...]

I’ve tried very hard to avoid agreeing to section 3.3.1. I had the foresight to renew my provisioning profile April the 21st, just before I would have had to accept the updated agreement to access to provisioning portal. This has allowed me to keep developing so far. Even so, provisioning profiles only last three months. [...]

Much has been said about the modifications to section 3.3.1 since the release of the iPhone OS 4 SDK beta when these changes were introduced; however, as Jonathan “Wolf” Rentzsch lamented, and to my own surprise, few developers complained about them (since, after all, they are the ones most directly affected by this rule). I [...]

I wasn’t planning on starting my blog that way. However, circumstances mandate it. Basically, Apple’s new iPhone Developer Agreement terms added to section 3.3.1 are not just unacceptable, hubristic by pretending to specify which tools we use for the job, and anti-competitive. They’re also completely impossible to enforce, and so utterly ambiguous that no one [...]