{"id":7551,"date":"2013-06-28T12:36:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T17:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7551"},"modified":"2013-06-28T12:36:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T17:36:20","slug":"icloud-and-user-generated-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/28\/icloud-and-user-generated-data\/","title":{"rendered":"iCloud and User-Generated Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autriv.com\/apple-fail-the-ridiculous-guideline-thats-preventing-icloud-from-doing-what-it-was-born-to-do\/\">Autriv<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.autriv.com\/apple-fail-the-ridiculous-guideline-thats-preventing-icloud-from-doing-what-it-was-born-to-do\/\"><p>Nonetheless we were denied for our use of iCloud. Apple&rsquo;s reasoning was that they will not allow iOS applications to use iCloud to sync &ldquo;non-user-generated&rdquo; data between devices. After some lengthy followup, we learned that while using a &ldquo;drawing application&rdquo; to create a new piece of art and then saving that file would be considered &ldquo;user-generated&rdquo;, using our app to add a signature and content to a PDF and saving it as a new file is not &ldquo;user-generated&rdquo;. The exception, of course, being for Apple&rsquo;s own iOS applications, like those in iWorks. So after a long phone call with Apple that equated to my logical arguments being repeatedly contested with the same sentence from an apparent script (&ldquo;your app does not follow our guidelines regarding user-generated documents in iCloud&rdquo;), what was their recommendation for how to get over this hurdle? Use a 3rd party iCloud competitor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are some other apps in the store that <em>have<\/em> been allowed to do this, so it&rsquo;s unclear whether Apple&rsquo;s reviewers are being inconsistent or there&rsquo;s more to the SignMyPad story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autriv: Nonetheless we were denied for our use of iCloud. Apple&rsquo;s reasoning was that they will not allow iOS applications to use iCloud to sync &ldquo;non-user-generated&rdquo; data between devices. After some lengthy followup, we learned that while using a &ldquo;drawing application&rdquo; to create a new piece of art and then saving that file would 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":[91,130,16,31,26,484],"class_list":["post-7551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-rejection","tag-icloud","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-signmypad"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551","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=7551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}