{"id":17763,"date":"2017-04-17T09:10:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T13:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17763"},"modified":"2017-04-17T16:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T20:00:02","slug":"flume-leaves-the-mac-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/17\/flume-leaves-the-mac-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Flume Leaves the Mac App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.flumeapp.com\/post\/159273138716\/flume-leaves-the-mac-app-store\">Rafif Yalda<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flumeapp\/status\/850067068909236226\">tweet<\/a>, via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lapcatsoftware\/status\/853609150168928256\">Jeff Johnson<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.flumeapp.com\/post\/159273138716\/flume-leaves-the-mac-app-store\"><p>Just minutes before submitting the update to Apple, we received notification from Apple that after re-reviewing our app by seemingly random selection, we had one week to make significant changes or be removed from the App Store.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Flume&rsquo;s operation is indeed not explicitly authorized by Instagram (said third-party). We make that clear in our Terms of Use. The reference to &ldquo;third-party social media alterations&rdquo; is a vague statement however, and the only issue they chose to highlight was Flume&rsquo;s uploading capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, as mentioned above, Apple chose to not reply, leaving us with very little recourse.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The inconsistency of the decision strikes us the most however - 39 Instagram related apps still remain live on the App Store, 13 of which provide upload features[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2017-04-17): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flumeapp\/status\/853991389427896320\">Flume<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flumeapp\/status\/853991389427896320\"><p>Just a quick update - we decided to try once more to get an answer about the inconsistencies and this time, they did reply (&lt;24h ago).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flumeapp\/status\/853991932997107712\"><p>Didn&rsquo;t really answer our questions entirely, though this was a follow up to the new update which was rejected.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafif Yalda (tweet, via Jeff Johnson): Just minutes before submitting the update to Apple, we received notification from Apple that after re-reviewing our app by seemingly random selection, we had one week to make significant changes or be removed from the App Store. [&#8230;] Flume&rsquo;s operation is indeed not explicitly authorized by Instagram (said third-party). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1508,1286,30,32,39,1381,153],"class_list":["post-17763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-flume","tag-instagram","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-10-12","tag-photography"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17765,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17763\/revisions\/17765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}