Linked List: March 5, 2020

Thursday, 5 March 2020

Apple Updates App Store Review Guidelines ★

Juli Clover, MacRumors:

Apple’s new guidelines can be found on its developer website, but we’ve highlighted a few notable changes below.

One change getting a lot of attention are the rules around ads in push notifications. Nick Heer:

Ads delivered by push notifications were once verboten, but some developers ignored that rule and Apple didn’t police it.

It’s not so much an change in the rules as changing the written rules to reflect the de facto policy. It sounds bad, but in my experience it’s easy to avoid apps that send any unwanted notifications.

Anthony Levandowski Ordered to Pay $179 Million to Google, Files for Bankruptcy ★

Kirsten Korosec, reporting for TechCrunch:

An arbitration panel ruled in December that Levandowski and Lior Ron had engaged in unfair competition and breached their contract with Google when they left the company to start a rival autonomous vehicle company focused on trucking, called Otto. Uber acquired Otto in 2017. A San Francisco County court confirmed Wednesday the panel’s decision.

Ron settled last month with Google for $9.7 million. However, Levandowski, had disputed the ruling. The San Francisco County Superior Court denied his petition today, granting Google’s petition to hold Levandowski to the arbitration agreement under which he was liable.

I’ll go out on a limb and say it was a bad decision not to settle.