iFixit Chief executive officer Kyle Wiens provided within a blog that often Apple had attracted his company’s game developer membership because of a provisions abuse and, subsequently, the iFixit iOS application had also been shut down beginning with the App Store.
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iFixit announced that its app on the Apple App Store was removed after it tore down the Apple TV.
“The good news is we’ve been working like gangbusters on our mobile site”, Wiens said, adding that the native iOS app was already beset by compatibility issues with iOS 9 before it was pulled.
iFixit’s Apple TV unit was sent directly from Apple with the same restrictions placed on Apple TV units sent to other developers, but iFixit ignored the fine print. “We weighed the risks, blithely tossed those risks over our shoulder, and tore down the Apple TV anyway”, reads the blog post. Rather than attempt to rewrite it, iFixIt’s focusing its efforts on its mobile website where users can access fix guides and receiving troubleshooting help.
For iFixit, this isn’t going to be that big of a deal.
If someone else wants to try and rebuild iFixIt’s open source app, the company says go for it, “just respect our license and don’t put ads in it”. We’re sure that from iFixIt’s perspective, Apple decision is petty.
That means the larger group of developers who had the luxury of extended time with the new Apple TV won’t get that in the future, and instead will have to make due with software simulators and updates after they see how their apps perform on shipping hardware. The reason: they don’t allow developers to reveal secrets pertaining to products that the Apple faithful can’t buy yet.
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However, not only has the offending developer account been shuttered, according to iFixit, but the iFixit fix Manual app has been pulled, because it was tied to the same developer account. Well, the fourth-generation Apple TV isn’t actually available for purchase yet.
