{"id":6262,"date":"2012-10-01T14:31:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T19:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6262"},"modified":"2012-10-04T22:02:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T03:02:58","slug":"apps-that-promote-other-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/apps-that-promote-other-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Apps That Promote Other Apps (Will Be Rejected)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2012\/10\/01\/app-store-promotion\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2012\/10\/01\/app-store-promotion\"><p>This is a case where these service should be able to survive outside the App Store as mobile websites, but I simply don&rsquo;t see what problem Apple is solving by keeping them out of the store.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s strange that after Apple acquired Chomp and <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/29\/ios-6-app-store\/\">redesigned the App Store app<\/a>, it seems to be harder to use the app and harder to find new titles. Yet Apple doesn&rsquo;t want third parties to help them solve the discoverability problem.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2012-10-04): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macstories.net\/stories\/enforcing-rule-2-25\/\">Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macstories.net\/stories\/enforcing-rule-2-25\/\"><p>I believe Apple&rsquo;s main &ldquo;issue&rdquo; is with apps that look like an alternative App Store, containing links to App Store apps. By avoiding &ldquo;similarity&rdquo; and &ldquo;confusion&rdquo;, Apple wants to ensure users will rely on <em>Apple&rsquo;s<\/em> App Store for search and discovery, not a third-party App Store lookalike. If you think about it, it makes sense for Apple to want people to use the App Store: more people means more data, more data should lead to better Genius and Search results over time. From this standpoint, I&rsquo;d argue Apple wants users not to just open direct links in the App Store, but to <em>use<\/em> the App Store.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: This is a case where these service should be able to survive outside the App Store as mobile websites, but I simply don&rsquo;t see what problem Apple is solving by keeping them out of the store. It&rsquo;s strange that after Apple acquired Chomp and redesigned the App Store app, it seems to be [&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":[91,38,31],"class_list":["post-6262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-apple","tag-ios"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262","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=6262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6305,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions\/6305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}