{"id":7840,"date":"2013-09-12T15:16:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T20:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7840"},"modified":"2013-09-12T15:16:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T20:16:46","slug":"app-store-rule-11-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/12\/app-store-rule-11-9\/","title":{"rendered":"App Store Rule 11.9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.subfurther.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/10\/pulled\/\">Chris Adamson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.subfurther.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/10\/pulled\/\"><p>Since people could keep using this app indefinitely, I could be on the hook to MapQuest for service fees indefinitely. So I set the app up under a subscription model: the purchase price gets you three months, and then a year&rsquo;s service is $5. That way, while my liabilities to MapQuest scaled with usage, so did my ability to pay them.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, since the app&rsquo;s release, this kind of model has been explicitly forbidden by Apple&rsquo;s App Store Guidelines:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>11.9<\/strong> Apps containing &ldquo;rental&rdquo; content or services that expire after a limited time will be rejected<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Adamson: Since people could keep using this app indefinitely, I could be on the hook to MapQuest for service fees indefinitely. So I set the app up under a subscription model: the purchase price gets you three months, and then a year&rsquo;s service is $5. That way, while my liabilities to MapQuest scaled with [&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":[91,101,31,26,578,106,579],"class_list":["post-7840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-business","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-mapquest","tag-maps","tag-road-trip"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840","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=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}