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With over  \n300,000 apps and 7 billion downloads, it has been a huge hit with developers and users around the world. Now we are thrilled to be opening our new Mac App Store to the hundreds of thousands of Mac developers and tens of millions of Mac users around the world.  \nWe hope the new Mac App Store is the most exciting place for users to discover and purchase their apps. To ensure that apps are reliable, perform as advertised, and free of offensive material, we will review every app on the Mac App Store based on a set of Mac App Store Review Guidelines that we are ready to share with you. These guidelines are designed to help you create and prepare your apps so they will sail through our approval process.  \nWe want to help you reach tens of millions of Mac customers with your apps. As with the mobile App Store, developers will earn 70% of the revenues. Please join us as we launch our Mac App Store within the next 90 days, and together we can surprise and delight our joint customers.  \nTable of Contents  \n1. Terms and conditions  \n2. Functionality  \n3. Metadata, ratings and rankings  \n4. Location  \n5. Trademarks and trade dress  \n6. User interface  \n7. Purchasing and currencies  \n8. Scraping and aggregation  \n9. Damage to device  \n10. Personal attacks  \n11. Violence  \n12. Objectionable content  \n13. Privacy  \n14. Pornography  \n15. Religion, culture, and ethnicity  \n16. Contests, sweepstakes, lotteries, and raffles  \n17. Charities and contributions  \n18. Legal requirements  \n1. Terms and conditions  \n1.1 As a developer of applications for the Mac App Store you are bound by the terms of the Program License Agreement (PLA), Human Interface Guidelines (HIG), and any other licenses or contracts between you and Apple. The following rules and examples are intended to assist you in gaining acceptance for your app in the App Store, not to amend or remove provisions from any other agreement.  \n2. Functionality  \n2.1 Apps that crash will be rejected  \n2.2 Apps that exhibit bugs will be rejected  \n2.3 Apps that do not perform as advertised by the developer will be rejected  \n2.4 Apps that include undocumented or hidden features inconsistent with the description of the app will be rejected  \n2.5 Apps that use non-public APIs will be rejected  \n2.6 Apps that are \"beta\", \"demo\", \"trial\", or \"test\" versions will be rejected  \n2.7 Apps that duplicate apps already in the App Store may be rejected, particularly if there are many of them  \n2.8 Apps that are not very useful or do not provide any lasting entertainment value may be rejected  \n2.9 Apps that are primarily marketing materials or advertisements will be rejected  \n2.10 Apps that are intended to provide trick or fake functionality that are not clearly marked as such will be rejected  \n2.11 Apps that encourage excessive consumption of alcohol or illegal substances, or encourage minors to consume alcohol or smoke cigarettes, will be rejected  \n2.12 Apps that provide incorrect diagnostic or other inaccurate device data will be rejected  \n2.13 Developers \"spamming\" the App Store with many versions of similar apps will be removed from the Mac Developer Program  \n2.14 Apps must be packaged and submitted using Apple's packaging technologies included in Xcode  \n-no third party installers allowed  \n2.15 Apps must be self-contained, single application installation bundles, and cannot install code or resources in shared locations  \n2.16 Apps that download or install additional code or resources to add functionality or change their primary purpose will be rejected  \n2.17 Apps that download other standalone apps will be rejected  \n2.18 Apps that install kexts will be rejected  \n2.19 Apps that require license keys or implement their own copy protection will be rejected  \n2.20 Apps that present a license screen at launch will be rejected  \n2.21 Apps may not use update mechanisms outside of the App Store","cbCaime9vURF7l1p","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaime9vURF7l1p","pdf",78864,"English","# Introduction\n# Terms and conditions\n## Program License Agreement and related documents\n# Functionality\n## Crash and bug rejection rules\n## Hidden or undocumented features\n## Public API and beta/trial limitations\n## Packaging and installation constraints\n# Metadata (name, descriptions, ratings, rankings, etc.)\n## Platform name restrictions\n## Placeholder and irrelevant descriptions","[{\"question\":\"What happens to apps that crash or contain bugs on the Mac App Store?\",\"answer\":\"Apps that crash or exhibit bugs will be rejected during review.\"},{\"question\":\"Are beta, demo, trial, or test versions allowed for submission?\",\"answer\":\"No. Apps that are labeled as \\\"beta\\\", \\\"demo\\\", \\\"trial\\\", or \\\"test\\\" versions will be rejected.\"},{\"question\":\"What metadata and description issues can cause an app to be rejected?\",\"answer\":\"Apps can be rejected for placeholder text, descriptions not relevant to the app’s functionality, and app names/metadata that mention other computer platforms.\"}]","Mac App Store Review Guidelines - App Store Resource Center | PDF",1792700272,13]