Instapaper 和 Readability 这样的应用的商业模式合法么？

[Livid]

他们的用户体验的很大一部分就是去除网站上的广告。

[dismory]

这算擦边球，因为用户有选择权的。

不过还是有可能收律师信。

[kayue]

去廣告應該是合法的。

[est]

@kayue 准确的应该说，在客户端对资源进行选择性下载是合法的。至于服务器处理这个就不好说了。灰色地带。

[fly2never]

http://www.geekpark.net/entity/view/104163

[claliu]

An Open Letter to Apple (reprint) at Monday, February 21st, 2011

Dear Apple:

It’s your friends from Readability. Remember us? You put our technology into your Safari browser last year. We’re writing this open letter because – well – we’re a little upset right now.

Last Friday, you notified us that our Readability iOS application was rejected. In explaining the rejection, you pointed us to 11.2 in the App Store Review Guidelines:

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http://blog.arc90.com/2011/02/21/an-open-letter-to-apple-reprint/

[TheOnly92]

这么说 Adblock 也犯法了。再说去除广告的用户一般都不会去点击广告吧？反正这样的用户已经不会产生盈利，况且有些 advertiser 营业模式中 view 有影响，这样对他们来说也许比较好吧？

[Livid]

@claliu Oops...

[claliu]

@Livid 比较Readability和The Daily 二者的区别在于 The Daily是传统媒体在苹果提供的硬件平台上的完美诠释 而Readability并不拥有内容 她正在尝试的正是苹果之于传统内容媒体的 而且Readability能够接触到苹果所最最在意的订阅者信息

[claliu]

@TheOnly92 易读(Readability)让在线阅读更轻松，同时分一点钱给内容创作商 via http://www.mittrchinese.com/single.php?p=21409

[claliu]

Subscription rule not for SaaS access?

In response to an email about IAP and subscriptions affecting software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) apps such as Evernote, Dropbox, Salesforce, and arguably Readability, Steve Jobs reportedly replied:

We created subscriptions for publishing apps, not SaaS apps.

Sent from my iPhone

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( via http://www.marco.org/3449240589 )