{"id":23355,"date":"2018-11-12T15:56:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T20:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23355"},"modified":"2019-09-02T14:58:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T18:58:23","slug":"apple-removes-rescuetime-from-the-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/12\/apple-removes-rescuetime-from-the-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Removes RescueTime From the App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rescuetime.com\/rescuetime-for-ios-removed\/\">Mark Wolgemuth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.rescuetime.com\/rescuetime-for-ios-removed\/\">\n<p>We have submitted a feature-reduced app for approval while we communicate with Apple about why we were singled out for rejection while other similar apps have been allowed to continue (or have been re-admitted after seemingly identical rejections.)<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Critically, using the persistent location API also allows us to use an acknowledged acceptable way to capture when our users have active screen time. This, of course, in a get-things-done digital wellness tool is absolutely critical information as well. It is why we use this method rather than the significant location change methods.<\/p>\n<p>We do not understand or agree that this is &ldquo;misusing&rdquo; the method. While we believe a mature device use API would be far preferable, this solution seems to be blessed by Apple in some cases already, because location matters AND screen time matters, they said it themselves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Location definitely seems like something you&rsquo;d want to include when tracking your time, and it sounds like you can opt out, so this rejection doesn&rsquo;t make much sense to me.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Wolgemuth: We have submitted a feature-reduced app for approval while we communicate with Apple about why we were singled out for rejection while other similar apps have been allowed to continue (or have been re-admitted after seemingly identical rejections.) [&#8230;] Critically, using the persistent location API also allows us to use an acknowledged acceptable [&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":"2018-11-12T20:56:04Z","apple_news_api_id":"c42c83e7-7c04-45fd-9aa2-4be8ca9818f3","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-09-02T18:58:27Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AxCyD53wERf2aokvoypgY8w","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":[],"tags":[91,130,432,31,1610,26,1359,1865],"class_list":["post-23355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-appstore","tag-rejection","tag-gps","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-iosapp","tag-rescuetime","tag-time-tracking"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23355","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=23355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23356,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23355\/revisions\/23356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}