Comment by rubyfan
4 days ago
Nordictrack does this with iFit as well. Can’t sync to Apple Health without a paid account. Syncing is somewhat janky too.
4 days ago
Nordictrack does this with iFit as well. Can’t sync to Apple Health without a paid account. Syncing is somewhat janky too.
I've always felt that YouTube is also breaking this rule by making background playback a Premium feature.
Know why you've always felt that way?
Because YouTube is breaking that rule by monetizing background operation.
I'm not seeing how that would be a violation. Youtube has never been a "download files to my device" service. It has always been a "stream video from our servers" service. I don't see how the fact that they added the ability to save a file and gated it by a subscription would be a violation.
Can you explain how you see it as one?
This isn’t about downloading videos for offline use but about background playback.
YouTube recently blocked the ability to play a video in the background (or with the screen turned off) unless you pay for premium. It just turns off the video if you leave the app, unlike other media on my iPhone.
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> "download files to my device"
> they added the ability to save a file
Since when?
Oh, you mean pre-caching it and allowing the cache to play off-line?
It is not "downloading" or "saving" a file if I don't get an actual file on my file system I can use. I hate the abuse of this term.
Did you know that it's technically against the Apple TOS to use push notifications for advertising without allowing end users to opt out of the advertising part without removing functionality, even though it's never enforced and massive companies do it all the time?
Even Apple themselves do it, I see apple send me push notifications that are ads for Apple Arcade all the time.