These comments are rather disappointing. Paul is doing the best he can to write good software that people want to use, and Apple doesn't like one part of it, so they shut him off. He does everything he can, explaining what he knows and what he doesn't, fighting Apple to get it back, or at least for answers. And what many here are saying is, tough luck, we don't care about your wasted effort, just suck it up. Frankly, that's rude.

Apple is surely within its rights to reject this feature. It's there in their agreement that as users we have to check off, but don't actually read. But saying that it's not fair or not right for Apple to reject this, does not mean that they can't. They can, and we are disappointed by it. Rogue Amoeba skirted the line and got burned. They must have been aware of the risk. But that doesn't mean that they should not complain about overly ambiguous regulations. Fortunately, there is a solution around it.

The argument "if you don't like the rules, get out" is certainly not helping anyone. As someone who has used Macs for some 25 years or so, the feeling that Apple has gradually changed for the worst is getting harder and harder to bear. Sure, this isn't about anything dramatic like personal freedoms or anything, but it makes me sad to see a company that once threw a hammer into the face of conformity do the same annoying stuff that every other huge corporation does, and sometimes worse.

But regardless of your views on this, don't take it out on Paul. He's just trying to make his great software better.