{"id":25393,"date":"2019-05-27T16:17:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T20:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=25393"},"modified":"2019-05-27T16:17:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T20:17:59","slug":"movist-removed-from-the-mac-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/27\/movist-removed-from-the-mac-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Movist Removed From the Mac App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cocoable.com\/notices.html\">Movist<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/z31r4m\/status\/1132882313170128897\">Leo<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/cocoable.com\/notices.html\"><p>This is because Apple has refused to update the app, and they have also removed from the App Store the already accepted version.<\/p><p>What Apple pointed out was that Movist has a feature of &ldquo;downloading 3rd party media&rdquo;. So we removed the Safari Extension to allow YouTube videos to be played in Movist and removed the feature from Movist too. But Apple still refused to update because Movist has that feature yet. After all, we had no choice but to remove all streaming functionality from Movist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/app-store\/review\/guidelines\/\">Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/app-store\/review\/guidelines\/\"><p>5.2.3 Audio\/Video Downloading: Apps should not facilitate illegal file sharing or include the ability to save, convert, or download media from third party sources (e.g. Apple Music, YouTube, SoundCloud, Vimeo, etc.) without explicit authorization from those sources. Streaming of audio\/video content may also violate Terms of Use, so be sure to check before your app accesses those services. Documentation must be provided upon request.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>It doesn&rsquo;t look like the app is intended for saving media. I don&rsquo;t see what would be objectionable about streaming&mdash;any app with a Web view can already do that.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/01\/iina-1-0\/\">IINA 1.0<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movist (via Leo): This is because Apple has refused to update the app, and they have also removed from the App Store the already accepted version.What Apple pointed out was that Movist has a feature of &ldquo;downloading 3rd party media&rdquo;. So we removed the Safari Extension to allow YouTube videos to be played in Movist [&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":"2019-05-27T20:18:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"d1a938b0-e84c-40d9-9b15-88c7360648ae","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-05-27T20:18:02Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A0ak4sOhMQNmbFYjHNgZIrg","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":[130,32,39,1810,97],"class_list":["post-25393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-rejection","tag-macapp","tag-macappstore","tag-movist","tag-video"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25393","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=25393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25394,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25393\/revisions\/25394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}