{"id":2436,"date":"2010-05-14T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2010-05-14T09:30:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T13:30:18","slug":"iphone-apps-i-cant-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/14\/iphone-apps-i-cant-have\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Apps I Can&rsquo;t Have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikeash.com\/pyblog\/iphone-apps-i-cant-have.html\">Mike Ash<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/mikeash.com\/pyblog\/iphone-apps-i-cant-have.html\"><p>These ideas almost all fall under the category of &ldquo;utilities.&rdquo; And this is no coincidence: utilities are largely tools which work in concert with other software to offer more power in combination than you get separately. Apple prohibits third party apps from influencing anything outside themselves, so this sort of utility is impossible. The Utilities section of the App Store is a joke. Most of what it contains is either useless or miscategorized, because Apple forbids the creation of any true utility software for this platform.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some interesting ideas there, and I, too, would like to be able to buy and develop utilities for the iPhone. However, I believe the larger problem is the uncertainty regarding apps that <em>do<\/em> follow the developer agreement. Is anyone maintaining a list of all the rejected apps?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Ash: These ideas almost all fall under the category of &ldquo;utilities.&rdquo; And this is no coincidence: utilities are largely tools which work in concert with other software to offer more power in combination than you get separately. Apple prohibits third party apps from influencing anything outside themselves, so this sort of utility is impossible. [&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":[],"class_list":["post-2436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436","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=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions\/2437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}