{"id":7514,"date":"2013-06-13T17:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T22:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7514"},"modified":"2013-06-13T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T22:00:41","slug":"transferring-app-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/13\/transferring-app-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Transferring App Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/13836\">Adam C. Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/13836\"><p>Apple has at long last responded to one significant request: the desire to transfer apps between developers. This is important because developers have a lot of intellectual property value wrapped up in apps, in part due to the app&rsquo;s metadata in the App Store. Until now, it wasn&rsquo;t possible to transfer an app between developers without losing rankings and reviews and severing the connection with existing customers for updates, thus stripping an app of much of its hard-earned value.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a a good improvement, but it&rsquo;s worth noting what the FAQ says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You cannot transfer iCloud enabled apps or apps using iCloud entitlements, Passbook IDs, certificates, or notifications.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, apps with approved auto-renewable, non-renewing, or free subscriptions In-App Purchase subscriptions cannot be transferred. This includes apps that previously had approved In-App Purchases subscriptions, even if they have been removed.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam C. Engst: Apple has at long last responded to one significant request: the desire to transfer apps between developers. This is important because developers have a lot of intellectual property value wrapped up in apps, in part due to the app&rsquo;s metadata in the App Store. Until now, it wasn&rsquo;t possible to transfer an [&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":[91,38,101,16,39],"class_list":["post-7514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-apple","tag-business","tag-icloud","tag-macappstore"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514","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=7514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7515,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514\/revisions\/7515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}