4.10:

You may not monetize built-in capabilities provided by the hardware or operating system, such as Push Notifications, the camera, or the gyroscope; or Apple services and technologies, such as Apple Music access, iCloud storage, or Screen Time APIs.

halJordan 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This only applies if the sole reason of the purchase is to gate an apple capability. If the purchase does more than that, literally anything, you can gate all the apple parts on an iPhone.

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fauigerzigerk 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Where does it say that in the guidelines?

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mx20 7 hours ago | parent [-]

They don't restrict the App on the Phone to access Apple Health, just the synch between their Cloud and Apple.

	▲	marcellus23 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Developers can only write data into Apple Health from the local phone SDK. Cloud import is only supported from health providers and laboratories.

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rubyfan 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nordictrack does this with iFit as well. Can’t sync to Apple Health without a paid account. Syncing is somewhat janky too.

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SOLAR_FIELDS an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Did you know that it's technically against the Apple TOS to use push notifications for advertising without allowing end users to opt out of the advertising part without removing functionality, even though it's never enforced and massive companies do it all the time?

Even Apple themselves do it, I see apple send me push notifications that are ads for Apple Arcade all the time.

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yreg 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've always felt that YouTube is also breaking this rule by making background playback a Premium feature.

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oddIdentities 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Know why you've always felt that way?

Because YouTube is breaking that rule by monetizing background operation.

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socalgal2 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm not seeing how that would be a violation. Youtube has never been a "download files to my device" service. It has always been a "stream video from our servers" service. I don't see how the fact that they added the ability to save a file and gated it by a subscription would be a violation.

Can you explain how you see it as one?

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Wieldable4640 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This isn’t about downloading videos for offline use but about background playback.

YouTube recently blocked the ability to play a video in the background (or with the screen turned off) unless you pay for premium. It just turns off the video if you leave the app, unlike other media on my iPhone.

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kayodelycaon 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I haven’t been able to do background play in YouTube without Premium for at least 4 years. I also recall finding Reddit threads of people having the same issue.

So… not exactly new for iPhone users.

	▲	malfist 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Just because someone broke the rule in the past, persisted in breaking the rule and is still breaking the rule today doesn't mean they get a free pass to break the rule.

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4ggr0 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

AFAIK you can open the video in Firefox, which allows you to stream in the background. of course not that seamless, but at least there's still a work-around.

	▲	pitched 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Orion browser on iOS supports this very seamlessly, both pip and background.

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TeMPOraL 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> "download files to my device"

> they added the ability to save a file

Since when?

Oh, you mean pre-caching it and allowing the cache to play off-line?

It is not "downloading" or "saving" a file if I don't get an actual file on my file system I can use. I hate the abuse of this term.

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gumby 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The fee is to unlock something on their own back end, triggered by using a non Apple device. So Apple’s license probably doesn’t apply (the corner case that could cause it to apply is the app generating a key and sending it to the Withings infrastructure, I suppose).

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basch 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But they are monetizing the export button you press before the api call is made.