{"id":34899,"date":"2022-02-03T16:10:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T21:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34899"},"modified":"2022-02-04T16:09:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T21:09:33","slug":"too-big-to-fail-app-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/03\/too-big-to-fail-app-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Big to Fail App Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobiledevmemo.com\/app-store-too-big-to-fail\/\">Eric Benjamin Seufert<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mobiledevmemo.com\/app-store-too-big-to-fail\/\">\n<p>The presence of certain apps is so imperative to the App Store&rsquo;s broader consumer appeal that Apple has no choice but to allow those apps to defy its various platform rules and restrictions. These apps are too big to fail: if Apple were to enforce its rules against these apps and block them from the App Store, it would suffer extreme commercial consequences.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This creates a very fine line for Apple to navigate, especially in the case of Netflix. Apple must allow the products that are too big to fail to skirt (or appear to skirt) its App Store policies while preserving the agency and legitimacy to enforce those policies for the developers of mobile-only games.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/02\/schneier-on-sideloading\/\">Schneier on Sideloading<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/07\/doj-investigates-apples-treatment-of-roblox\/\">DOJ Investigates Apple&rsquo;s Treatment of Roblox<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/05\/netflix-games-for-ios\/\">Netflix Games for iOS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"too-big-to-fail-app-review-update-2022-02-04\">Update (2022-02-04): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcoarment\/status\/1489706497160495109\">Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcoarment\/status\/1489706497160495109\">\n<p>Now, in practice, this gets a bit messy when dealing with extremely popular, must-have services for so many people like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook knows that Apple can&rsquo;t REALLY kick them off the App Store.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;probably.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Benjamin Seufert: The presence of certain apps is so imperative to the App Store&rsquo;s broader consumer appeal that Apple has no choice but to allow those apps to defy its various platform rules and restrictions. These apps are too big to fail: if Apple were to enforce its rules against these apps and block [&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":"2022-02-03T21:11:01Z","apple_news_api_id":"2fd6b5a8-9c69-49b9-9fb2-09891ebb7931","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-02-04T21:09:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AL9a1qJxpSbmfsgmJHrt5MQ","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":[91,31,2078,227],"class_list":["post-34899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-ios","tag-ios-15","tag-netflix"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34899","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=34899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34914,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34899\/revisions\/34914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}