{"id":651753,"date":"2013-04-10T21:50:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T01:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=428077"},"modified":"2013-04-10T21:50:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T01:50:59","slug":"apple-warns-of-imminent-app-store-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651753","title":{"rendered":"Apple warns of imminent App Store crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/10\/apple-app-store-crackdown-428077\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/apple-app-store110707125242.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=434&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple App Store Crackdown\" title=\"Apps\" \/><\/a><\/center>Following reports that app recommendation service\u00a0AppGratis had its <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/ios\">iOS<\/a> application pulled from the App Store, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=AAPL\">AAPL<\/a>) is reportedly getting ready to crack down on numerous apps that have quietly been violating Apple&#8217;s terms and conditions. According to multiple unnamed sources speaking <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20130410\/apples-ouster-of-appgratis-is-just-the-start-of-an-app-store-crackdown\/\">with <em>AllThingsD<\/em><\/a>, Apple pulled AppGratis from the Store for\u00a0violating two clauses in its App Store Review Guidelines, one that forbids apps from promoting other companies&#8217; software and a second that bars developers from sending marketing messages using push notifications. The blog&#8217;s sources say Apple is getting ready to crack down on other apps that violate these two clauses \u2014 though it would be nice if Apple were to fix its own &#8220;Genius&#8221; app\u00a0recommendation\u00a0system, which is still absolutely awful despite a recent overhaul, before ousting similar services that actually work.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/KmuYl-6XvLE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following reports that app recommendation service\u00a0AppGratis had its iOS application pulled from the App Store, Apple (AAPL) is reportedly getting ready to crack down on numerous apps that have quietly been violating Apple&#8217;s terms and conditions. According to multiple unnamed sources speaking with AllThingsD, Apple pulled AppGratis from the Store for\u00a0violating two clauses in its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}