Apple Smacks Readability In The Face With Subscription Rules; All SaaS In Trouble

We've already been over (and over and over and over and over ) Apple's new iOS subscription rules . And the initial backlash has seemingly cooled down as everyone has moved on to the next hot topic of the hour. But it's pretty clear that this issue is going to keep surfacing, because it really does screw a lot of developers. And sure enough, it's already back today. Readability , a service which takes text on the web and strips out ads and other distractions to make posts more readable, had been planning to bring an app to the iOS platform. In fact, they worked with Instapaper creator Marco Arment to build it. It seems like it would be been a pretty popular app. Except it was rejected on the grounds that it circumvents Apples in-app subscriptions today.