Apple's App Store Guidelines Now Allow Executable Code in Educational Apps and Developer Tools (macstories.net)

Posted by msmash on Monday June 12, 2017 @06:00AM from the opening-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Apple made several changes to the App Store Review Guidelines during WWDC last week, including an easing of the prohibition against downloading and executing code on an iOS device. The ban on executable code remains intact, but rule 2.5.2 now also provides that: "Apps designed to teach, develop, or test executable code may, in limited circumstances, download code provided that such code is not used for other purposes. Such apps must make the source code provided by the Application completely viewable and editable by the user.

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Part of this was because of Apple Playgrounds... by SuperKendall · 2017-06-12 07:48 · Score: 3, Interesting

Now that Apple has opened up Playgrounds in iOS11 to allow for easy loading of third party playgrounds, it makes sense they would modify the agreement to allow similar use elsewhere.
It also may mean they feel more secure about the sandboxing in apps in iOS11...

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