{"id":216568,"date":"2017-06-22T10:25:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T08:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=216568"},"modified":"2017-06-22T10:26:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T08:26:37","slug":"apple-in-massive-iphone-app-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/216568-apple-in-massive-iphone-app-crackdown.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple in massive iPhone app crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the lead up to the launch of iOS 11, Apple has removed hundreds of thousands of clones, spamware, 32-bit apps, and other software from its App Store, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/17\/06\/21\/apple-cleaning-hundreds-of-thousands-of-titles-from-app-store-in-review-guidelines-crackdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Insider reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Apple&#8217;s App Review Guidelines previously allowed apps created using\u00a0template or app generation services.<\/p>\n<p>This changed in the latest version of the guidelines, and Apple used the new rules to aggressively go after copycat apps on its marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>The new rule reads: &#8220;Apps created from a commercialized template or app generation service will be rejected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apple is using the same rule to take down spam apps, and apps that\u00a0push pirated content.<\/p>\n<p>It is also rejecting titles which show no recent download activity in an effort to tackle abandoned apps.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/216176-apple-launches-annual-subscription-for-music-south-african-pricing.html\">Apple launches annual subscription for Music \u2014 South African pricing<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has removed hundreds of thousands of clones, spamware, 32-bit apps, and other software from its App Store over the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":203586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2412,605,691,1125],"class_list":["post-216568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-app-store","tag-apple","tag-ios","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216610,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216568\/revisions\/216610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}