{"id":24081,"date":"2019-01-25T16:03:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=24081"},"modified":"2019-01-25T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T21:03:10","slug":"wechats-apps-within-an-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/25\/wechats-apps-within-an-app\/","title":{"rendered":"WeChat&rsquo;s Apps Within an App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/01\/25\/tencent-wechat-update-may-pressure-apple-in-china.html\">Eustance Huang<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patentlyapple.com\/patently-apple\/2019\/01\/tencents-wechat-is-out-to-challenge-apples-app-store-and-thats-bound-to-hurt-apples-services-business-in-china.html\">Jack Purcher<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/01\/25\/tencent-wechat-update-may-pressure-apple-in-china.html\"><p>The WeChat update, which came out this week, involves a redesign in the way mini-programs &mdash; apps within the app &mdash; are presented. With that change, users now &ldquo;essentially have a second home screen&rdquo; on their phones, said Matthew Brennan, co-founder and managing director at consultancy China Channel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I don&rsquo;t understand how this doesn&rsquo;t run afoul of <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/app-store\/review\/guidelines\/\">Apple&rsquo;s guideline<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/app-store\/review\/guidelines\/\">\n<p>2.5.8 Apps that create alternate desktop\/home screen environments or simulate multi-app widget experiences will be rejected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/06\/apples-china-problem-wechat\/\">Apple&rsquo;s China Problem: WeChat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/18\/apple-wants-30-of-tips-from-chinese-chat-apps\/\">Apple Wants 30% of Tips From Chinese Chat Apps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/12\/now-allowed-to-launch-apps-from-today-widgets\/\">Now Allowed to Launch Apps From Today Widgets<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eustance Huang (via Jack Purcher): The WeChat update, which came out this week, involves a redesign in the way mini-programs &mdash; apps within the app &mdash; are presented. With that change, users now &ldquo;essentially have a second home screen&rdquo; on their phones, said Matthew Brennan, co-founder and managing director at consultancy China Channel. I don&rsquo;t [&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":"2019-01-25T21:03:12Z","apple_news_api_id":"6487f099-7213-49a6-a5e3-9d67ea034378","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-01-25T21:03:13Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AZIfwmXITSaal451n6gNDeA","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":[91,1547,31,1610,1371],"class_list":["post-24081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-china","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-wechat"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24081","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=24081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24082,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24081\/revisions\/24082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}