![]() It is our understanding that Reddit did not ask Apple to remove the third-party Reddit apps. It should also be noted that many of these third-party apps, such as Narwhal, did have a filter to enable or disable NSFW content. These third-party Reddit clients were removed from Apple without any advance notice to developers, despite some of the apps being available on the App Store for well over a year. The official Reddit app, which launched last week and was featured by Apple on the App Store, currently remains in the App Store, but other Reddit clients including Narwhal, Antenna, Eggplant and BaconReader have all been removed for sale. This clause states that apps will be rejected if they contain “user generated content that is frequently pornographic”. Today, numerous third-party Reddit clients were removed from the App Store by Apple for breaching clause 18.2 of the App Review Guidelines. Apple wants them removed from all Reddit apps so that if a user does want to view NSFW content, that toggle must be manually changed from the Reddit website. It is our understanding that Apple’s objection is with the implementation of those NSFW toggles. Both Narwhal and Antenna are now available in the App Store, but both have been updated to remove the NSFW toggle that used to be in their apps. Update (4am PDT 12 April 2016): Some of the third-party Reddit clients have now returned to the App Store. Which is to say – Airmail is the most powerful email app for iOS out there right now, treating iPhone and iPad users with the same respect and attention other developers would only show for their Mac apps. While the majority of “modern” email clients are focused on reinventing email with new display options for the inbox and novel interfaces, Airmail wants to redefine how much control you’re given over your email on iOS. In addition to an iPad app – which mostly follows in the footsteps of its iPhone counterpart in terms of UI and navigation choices – Airmail 1.1 brings powerful new features such as saved searches, customizable keyboard shortcuts, support for send later and read receipts, and more. ![]() That’s changing with today’s update to Airmail for iOS, which I’ve been using as my only email client on the iPhone and iPad for the past several weeks. Airmail showed that it was possible to build an email app for power users on mobile devices – asking for a fair price in the process – but I couldn’t switch to it as my full-time client yet. When I first covered Airmail for iPhone, I noted how the vision of an email client for power users on iOS was only halfway there due to the lack of an iPad app and a variety of glitches and technical issues. It’s not easy to balance the needs of business and individual customers, but I think the changes announced today strike a fair balance that addresses the legitimate complaints that many individual users of TextExpander had with its new business model. I’m glad to see Smile make these changes. We did not make these changes easily or lightly, but for the long term life of the product so we can all enjoy it and engage with it for many years to come. We care about both, and in the changing software world a single focus is not a viable long term strategy for TextExpander. To some of you it may seem we don’t care about our individual customers any more and only care about business use. As Smile Founder Greg Scown explained on Smile’s blog, that is not the case: Smile’s initial decision struck many as an abandonment of consumer software for an enterprise model. Software pricing is hard, and it’s never been more difficult to build and maintain sustainable Mac and iOS apps. So, if you prefer, or need, Dropbox or iCloud syncing of your text snippets, you can continue to use these products. ![]()
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